However, a groundbreaking discovery at the New Kingdom site of Deir el-Medina (1550 B.C. to 1070 B.C.) has rewritten history, revealing that ancient Egyptian women bore tattoos in these exact ...

Back in the early 1920s, archaeologists came across an ancient Egyptian town called ... middle-aged woman with a tattoo. Her tattoo was of a wedjat, or an Eye of Horus, and Bes wearing a crown ...