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Tattoo History -- It's actually less painful than being tattooed. 3,550 Years Ago (1550 BCE) The Egyptian New Kingdom By the time of the New Kingdom some five hundred years later, from 1550 B.C.E on, tattooing is firmly established within cultural traditions. During this time tattoos continue to be reserved exclusively for women but they are dramatically transformed. Abstract geometric patterns of dots and dashes now give way to representations of the god Bes, a curious deity thought to be derived from a leonine god of the Predynastic Period.
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