Mummy with a Message? 800-Year-Old Tattooed Remains May Reframe Ancient Ritual Practices
For nearly a century, an enigmatic mummy sat quietly in the collections of the University of Turin’s Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (MAET), her secrets locked beneath darkened skin. Donated before 1930 with no archaeological records, her origins were a mystery until now. A recent study has revealed something extraordinary: a series of rare facial ...