AUSTRALIA was one of the world’s most tattooed nations when convicts were inked with symbols which carried secret meanings. Of the 160,000 convicts transported to Australia, at least 37 per cent of ...
A tattoo is ink stored in scar tissue. Archaeologists believe, based on marks they’ve seen on mummies, that human beings had tattoos between 4000 and 2000 B.C. in Egypt. Around 2000 B.C. tattooing ...