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The earliest evidence of tattoos are found in mummies which have been discovered in different parts of the world, including Peru and Nubia. The most ancient specimen of a tattooed person is perhaps the "Iceman", a man from the Bronze Age who had been discovered frozen since 3000 B.C in Tyrolean Alps. His lower back had a band of striped tattoos, a simple cross on the inside of his left knee and more stripes on his right ankle.
Historical evidence proves that tattoos were common in ancient Egypt. The oldest has been found on the Egyptian priestess of the goddess Hathor at Thebes. The priestess, Amunet, who lived approximately 4000 years ago, was tattooed with a parallel line of dots. Because she was a priestess, some historians claim that the tattoos have a religious connotation while some others opine that they are sexual in nature.
Some of the most diverse, ornate and perhaps even bizarre body art was seen during the Maya civilization that stretched from 300 to 900 A.D. Tattoos or any other kind of body art, whether temporary or permanent was done for religious purposes as well as beautification. Full body and facial tattoos were common among both men and women.
Most of the various Pacific islands that Captain James Cook visited on his endeavor included tattoos as a part of their culture. It was Cook who first introduced the term tattoo to the common man, deriving its name from a similar sounding Polynesian word of the same meaning. On board during this voyage was Sir Joseph Banks. Not only did he catalog the various kinds of animals and plants he saw, but also made extensive notes on indigenous cultures they experienced during the voyage. These notes include several references to tattoos. The first thing Banks did after returning to England was to create a permanent memento of his journey, a tattoo, the first on a modern western man.
On December 8th, 1891, the first electronic tattoo machine was patented by the inventor Samuel O'Reilly at the United States Patent Office. He began working from a barber shop in New York City, calling his business a "tattoo parlor", which was the first of its kind in the United States.
Soon, tattoo parlors began to sprout up all over the country. The First and the Second World War witnessed the popularization of tattoos among the army, who got them sometimes from their belief that it would act as a mystical protector, and others as a souvenir of remembrance.
In the mid-70s, tattoo artists from all over the world began to gather in a place and hold tattoo conventions where they spoke about, and showed off their work. Due to these conventions, magazines and other forms of exposure, tattoos emerged as a form of fashion. People recognized its artistic merit and started using it as a way to express themselves or their religious beliefs.
Charles Darwin, in his "Descent of Man", writes "Not one great country can be named, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves".
Recent times have witnessed a great revival of this form of body art. The combination of new technology, historical awareness and artistic ability has taken tattoos to a level that has never been imagined.