The Arku Cave tools
Chisel and serrated heads of probable hafted tattooing instruments, excavated in a burial site in northern Luzon.
The evidence
Tattooed skin that survived — bog, ice, desert and salt — with the date the laboratory gave it.
{'name': 'Before writing', 'th': 'ก่อนประวัติศาสตร์'}
Chinchorro Mo-1 T28 C22
A mummified man from the Chilean coast with a dotted line tattooed above his upper lip — the oldest tattoo yet found in the Americas.
The Gebelein mummies
Six naturally mummified bodies from Upper Egypt, dug out of sand graves in 1896, two of them tattooed.
Ötzi
The Alpine body with sixty-one tattoos — nineteen groups of black lines, and the greatest concentration on the legs.
{'name': 'Ancient', 'th': 'โบราณ'}
The Cordilleran mummies
Mummified Cordilleran people in cave and hanging-coffin burials, tattooed, with the designs also carved on the coffins.
The Ukok woman
A Pazyryk woman buried on the Ukok Plateau, preserved in ice for about 2,400 years, with animal designs on her skin.
The Qilakitsoq women
Mummified Inuit women from north-west Greenland, five centuries old, with facial tattoos visible under infrared.