The History Of Tattoos For You

The known history of tattoos goes back over 5000 years. If you don't know the word tattoo comes from it comes from the Polynesian word "ta" which means to strike something and from the Tahitian word "tatau" which means to mark something.

In 1991 a 5000 year old man frozen in ice was found in a glazier in Austria and he was perfectly preserved. And guess what he had several tattoo's.In fact he had 57 tattoo's. So we know for a fact that tattoo's have been around for at least 5000 years.

And the famous European Mummies that were found in 1948 in Siberia all had tattoo's. In fact some of the most beautiful tattoo's ever seen. Some of the tattoo's were in such fine detail that modern tattoo artists would have a hard time duplicating the tattoo's on a living human today. And these mummies were said to have lived over 3000 years ago.

The Second World War brought about a huge amount of sailors returning home from the war with tattoo's on their arms and before long the modern tattoo industry. Now you see tattoo parlors everywhere and more and more people are getting tattoo's today.

And tattoo's have always been a big thing in American prisons. Prisoners tattoo each other with their girlfriends names and also tattoo's of their gang affiliation. Some of them tattoo teardrops below their eyes and this means that they have killed another person.

Back in the early days of the circus in the United States many circuses had tattooed men or tattooed women in their side shows. One famous tattooed woman was Annie Frank in the late 1930's in Germany. See a post card of her from that era over to the right there.

With Angelina Jolie being one of the most tattooed celebrities many people are copying the tattoo's of the celebrities. If you check out the below photo slide show of Celebrity Tattoo Photos you may just be surprised at how many celebrities do have tattoos. And some of them are some really great work. The late Anna Nicole Smith had some very beautiful tattoo work. Check out the photos of Anna Nicole Smiths Tattoo's in the below photo slide show. And when you watch celebrities on tv watch them carefully so you can see which celebrities have tattoo's. The below slide show has quite a few celebrities with tattoo's. Check them out and see what you think. And why not post a comment down below now.

Posh Helped David Beckham choose his new tattoo which he recently had done. The new design is in Hebrew and is a Bible Verse according to sources close to the couple. But later sources revealed that Victoria doesn't want David to get any more tattoo's and she in fact tried to talk him out of getting his most recent tattoo.

And the singer Rihanna revealed that she recently got a new tattoo while performing in New Zealand. She says her new tattoo is tribal art like is done in the New Zealand area. She says her new tattoo is the traditional way they have always tattooed in the area.

Angelina Jolie is one of the most tattooed celebrity babes there are and she has some really fine tattoo work on various parts of her body. She's had some tattoo's covered up with new ones over the years and she recently made the statement that she's just a punk kid with tattoo's. And she says she isn't done getting tattoo's yet.

Wonder where Angelina Jolie will put her next tattoo's and what will it or they be. Angelina Jolie says that her tattoo's are part of her idenity and as she changes and goes through changes in her life she adds new tattoo's.