Research has found that Ancient Egyptian women wore ‘tramp stamp’ tattoos to protect them during childbirth. However, rather than the derogatory modern meaning attached to inked designs on the ...

Deir el-Medina, in Upper Egypt – which, somewhat confusingly, refers to the southern portion of the country – is rather different from the stereotypical Ancient Egyptian archeological site.

Ancient Egyptian women wore ornate back tattoos to protect them during and after childbirth, a new study suggests. The hypothesis follows examination of mummified remains of two women with tattoo ...

Sun Chariot: An ornate Bronze Age treasure that may have featured in an ancient Nordic religious ceremony What it tells us about the past: More than five millennia ago, an Egyptian weaver created a ...

Ancient Egypt’s female feline goddess had two sides. As Bastet, she could nurture and protect; as Sakhmet she had a propensity to brutally attack and maim without control. But in both forms, she ...

Back in the early 1920s, archaeologists came across an ancient Egyptian town called Deir el-Medina near the Nile River. Previous research has shown that the town was active from 1550 B.C. to 1070 ...

Pharaonic Egyptian Clothing by G Vogelsang-Eastwood (Leiden, 1993) Women in Ancient Egypt by B Watterson (Stroud, 1991) Egyptian Women of the Old Kingdom by HG Fischer (New York, 1989) Places to visit ...

Experts believe that ancient Egyptian women wore lower back tattoos to protect them during dangerous childbirth. Anne Austin / SWNS. Historically, ...

Pharaonic Egyptian Clothing by G Vogelsang-Eastwood (Leiden, 1993) Women in Ancient Egypt by B Watterson (Stroud, 1991) Egyptian Women of the Old Kingdom by HG Fischer (New York, 1989) Places to visit ...

Ancient Egyptian women sported "tramp stamps" tattoos to protect them during childbirth, new evidence has found. Rather than the derogatory modern meaning attached to inked designs on the lower ...