The first female Egyptian mummy tattooed was discovered in 2015 in the village of Deir el-Medina, the teams of the Egyptologist Cédric Gobeil and American anthropologist Anne Austin. – Twitter / Standford University
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The first woman was tattooed Egyptian mummy discovered in the village of Deir el-Medina, the teams of the Egyptologist Cédric Gobeil. According to the expert from Ifao (French Institute of Oriental Archaeology), this mummy is that of a woman who lived 3,300 years ago, a few years after the reign of Tutankhamun.

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On the throat and the two arms of this woman mummified included eye of Horus “embodying Nefer sign signife good, beautiful or perfect,” sit baboons, representations of the god Thoth, “having a prophylactic function,” cobras undulating, flowers and two cows facing “representing the goddess Hathor, which was the subject of a cult at Deir el-Medina,” the researcher

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“We already knew a couple of mummies with geometric tattoos, but with animal performances, this is the first time ! “Says Cedric Gobeil, joined by Le Point.

Patterns of Pharaonic Egypt

The discovery of this” tattooed mummy “dates back to 2015 and the subject this month of an article published in the journal Nature . That year, at Deir el-Medina, village artisans of the Valley of the Kings, Cédric Gobeil chooses to explore the tomb TT290. One that had already been searched quickly by the Egyptologist Bernard Bruyère in 1930 then reveals “a
 hundred mummies piled up, more or less complete, torn from their sarcophagi by looters here for many centuries, “says
 ABC News.

Invited to participate in the excavations, the American anthropologist Anne Austin (Stanford University) quickly spots a mummy without head or legs appears to be covered in tattoos. “When we looked at his photos after computer processing, we discovered to our surprise that these tattoos represent patterns of Pharaonic Egypt. Which had never been found before, “recalls Cedric Gobeil.



A priestess, a witch or a musician

Checks made, it is indeed tattoos. “They were made almost as practical today. Egyptian tattoo covered the skin of a blue-black pigment obtained by burning plant, then they tattooed with an assembly of several needles, “says Egyptologist.

According to experts, this mummy could be a priestess or a musician of Hathor, responsible for performing certain rituals. According Cédric Gobeil, “snakes on his skin may also think of a magician who could help people as a snake charmer or scorpions, or even communicate with the dead.”

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