the history of tattoo's

Tattooing began over 5000 years ago. The first tattoos probably were created by accident. Someone had a small wound, and rubbed it with their dirty hand that has soot and ashes on it from the fire. Once the wound had healed they still had the make under the skin, it stayed permanently.In 1991, a 5 thousand year old man who had tattoos made the newspapers all over the world, when his frozen body was discovered on a mountain between Austria and Italy. It was the best preserved corpse of that time period ever found. He had 57 tattoo's. There was a cross on the inside of his left knee, 6 straight lines about his kidneys and some parallel lines on his ankles, all about 15 centimeters long.