The complex tattoo is impossible to “Micm Mummy” 2000 years old

For the first time, archaeologists got a detailed look at the complex tattoo on the 2000 -year -old ice mummy, and they were buried deeply inside the Siberia Mountains covered with soil.

The researchers say that these tattoos are difficult to produce today, indicating that old tattoo artists have a great degree of skill.

With the help of modern tattoo artists, an international team of researchers examined mummy tattoos with unprecedented details and identify the tools and techniques that old societies may use to create body art. The results were published in the magazine Ancient times.

As now, obtaining a common practice in prehistoric societies. However, studying this practice is difficult, because the skin is rarely preserved in archaeological remains.

The ice prostitute of the Tai mountains, in Siberia, is a noticeable exception-they have been buried in rooms covered now in frosty soil, which sometimes maintains the skin of those inside.

The Pazyryk people had a Bedouin horses who lived between China and Europe. “The tattoo in the Pazyryk culture – the pastoral era in the ALTAI mountains – has done a long difference due to their complex graphic designs,” Jino Kaspar, an archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute for Geological Science and Bern University.

Scientists have not been able to study these tattoos in great detail, due to restrictions in photography techniques. Many of these tattoos are invisible to the naked eye, which means that scientists did not know that they were there when the mummies were initially dug in the 1940s.

Researchers need infrared photography to visualize the old tattoo because the skin decomposes over time, the tattoo colors fade and bleed in the surrounding skin, making it faded or invisible to the naked eye. Infrared light penetrates, with longer wavelengths compared to visible light, deeper into the skin and reveals what lies below the surface. Therefore, until now, most studies have been based on tattoo graphics, instead of direct images.

But progress in photography technology finally allowed researchers to take high -resolution images of mummies and tattoos. The researchers used high -resolution digital photography near infrared to conduct a 50 -year -old woman from a 50 -year -old Iron Age, where her residue is preserved in the Armiteg Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The newly discovered artistic tattoos reveal a detailed tattoo of leopards, trees, restrictions, semi -legendary creature, half -eagle.

The researchers found that, as with many people in the modern era, tattoos on the arm of the right mummy are much more detailed than those on the left. This indicates that the two different old tattoos, or the same tattoo after strengthening their skills, were responsible. Surveying also indicates that artists used many tools – with a point or several points – and that tattoos have been completed on multiple sessions.

This indicates that the tattoo was not just a form of decoration in Pazyryk culture, but rather a skilled craft that requires building skills and technical ability. Many other individuals were buried on the same site, indicating that the tattoo was likely to be a common practice.

“The study presents a new way to get to know the Personal Agency in the practices of amending the prehistoric body,” Kaspari said in a statement. “The tattoo does not appear, not just a symbolic decoration, but as a specialized letter – the one that demanded technical skill, aesthetic sensitivity, official training or vocational training.”