Ancient Tattoos in Sudan…

While I was excavating this winter with colleagues in Sudan, we found several post-Meroitic burials from the Christian period on our site. My Egyptology students in Beirut are always intrigued by my slides of “Christian” mummies from Egypt and Sudan. In fact, an upcoming exhibit at the British Museum, “Ancient Lives: New Discoveries,” will be showcasing a female mummy from Sudan with a tattoo on her right leg honoring the Archangel Michael.