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Researchers Find Facial Tattoos on Infants in Early Christian Communities in Nubia

Researchers have uncovered rare evidence of toddlers tattooed in Nubia during the Christian era, revealing visible facial markings.
Ancient Origins

Toddlers with Facial Tattoos: Christianity's Impact on Nubian Body Art

Ancient Nubian civilizations practiced something that might shock modern sensibilities - they tattooed the faces of infants and toddlers as young as seven months old. A new study using advanced ...

Toddlers with facial tattoos: How Christianity expanded body art in Nile Valley civilizations

Ancient Nubians who lived between the 7th and 9th centuries tattooed the cheeks and foreheads of their infants and toddlers. This surprising discovery was made during a systematic survey of more than ...
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1,400-year-old Nubian toddler tattoos are baffling researchers

The 1,400-year-old Nubian toddler tattoos are not isolated curiosities but part of a broader pattern of body marking that is only now coming into focus. I see in this discovery a rare chance to watch ...
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Ancient Nubia : African kingdoms on the Nile / edited by Marjorie M. Fisher ... [et al.] ; with photographs by Chester Higgins Jr

The land of Nubia / Peter Lacovara -- The history of Nubia / Marjorie M. Fisher -- The early exploration and archaeology of Nubia / Peter Lacovara. Sidelight: the treasure of a Nubian queen / Peter ...