10 of the Craziest and Most Amazing Tattoo Designs for Men and Women

The tattoo (which comes from the Tahitian "tatu"meaning "to mark something")may well have existed since 12,000 years BC, although its purpose varies fromculture to culture. In 1992, a 4000-year-old body of a man with tattoos wasfound in a glacier in Austria. In ancient Egypt, a tattoo was considered a sign of nobility or fertility, and the marks have been found on Egyptian mummies dating from 2000 B.C. Believed by many ancient peoples to provide magical protection against bad luck or disease, tattoos were used to identify rank, social position, or group membership in a variety of cultures including the Greeks, Gauls, Thracians, and ancient Britons and Germans. In Roman times, tattoos were the mark of slaves and criminals, but the dawning of Christianity brought the practice into disreupte and tattooing was forbidden in Europe.

10 of the Craziest and Most Amazing Tattoo Designs for Men and Women

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