While cross tattoos are no longer widespread among urban Copts, they remain popular among Egyptian Christian villagers as reminders of particular blessings and religious vows. To these Copts of ...

These Egyptian tattoos, she says, were meant for show ... It seems to be very cross-cultural but for a variety of different reasons," Friedman adds. The mummies are on display at the British ...

Cross-shaped patterns on her arms don’t occur on any of the other dozen tattooed mummies, Austin said. Several other of her tattoos look like hieroglyphs used in ancient Egyptian writing.

The original tattooed woman assessed by Austin has cross patterns on ... s “oldest figurative tattoos” on 5,000-year-old (in other words, pre-pharaoh) Egyptian mummies. As CNN’s Nell Lewis ...