A tattoo referencing Christ was found on the 1,300-year-old body of an individual in what is now Sudan.

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      1 year ago

      The article says the “body excavated in a cemetery near a medieval monastery” I doubt it was mummified in the Egyptian sense.

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        1 year ago

        Who said annything about egypt? Those are just the most famous because of the advanced intentional processes.

        Wikipedia: A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions. Some authorities restrict the use of the term to bodies deliberately embalmed with chemicals, but the use of the word to cover accidentally desiccated bodies goes back to at least the early 17th century.

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          From the article:

          It is only the second time that a tattoo has been found from medieval Nubia… Nubia is a region that encompasses parts of modern-day Egypt and Sudan.