Toddlers with facial tattoos: How Christianity expanded body art in Nile Valley civilizations
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Ancient Nubians who lived between the 7th and 9th centuries tattooed the cheeks and foreheads of their infants and toddlers. This surprising discovery was made during a systematic survey of more than 1,000 human remains from the Nile River Valley, an area once part of ancient Nubia and now in present-day Sudan.