Get the latest tech news
2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos, imaging reveals
The woman, aged about 50, was buried in a Siberian ice cave and discovered millennia later.
High-resolution imaging of tattoos found on a 2,500 year old Siberian "ice mummy" have revealed decorations that a modern tattooist would find challenging to produce, according to researchers. The intricate tattoos of leopards, a stag, a rooster, and a mythical half-lion and half-eagle creature on the woman's body shed light on an ancient warrior culture. "The insights really drive home to me the point of how sophisticated these people were," lead author Dr Gino Caspari from the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology and the University of Bern, told BBC News.
Or read this on Hacker News
