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Scientists investigating mummified human remains from a cemetery in Sudan recently made a fascinating find: a “Christ” tattoo they say marks only the second evidence of tattooing in medieval Nubia.
His bones came from Ghazali, one of the best-preserved archaeological sites in Sudan and location of a medieval Christian monastery that operated between the 7th and 13th centuries. The area also contains, one of which yielded the bone with the tattooed foot. Ghazili is situated in the Bayuda Desert in Sudan’s north, about 9 miles from the Nile River, where the arid climate favors skeletal preservation, but makes intact soft tissue a highly unusual find.
The emblem combines the Greek capital letters chi and rho , with a vertical P running through the center of the X to merge the first two letters of the Greek word forwent up close with another tattoo from Ghz-1-002’s time and place, a monogram of Saint Michael on a woman’s inner thigh. A small number of tattoos have been found across Nubia from earlier, around four thousand years ago. Those markings, however, are more abstract than the clearly decipherable symbol atop Ghz-1-002’s right foot.
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