Historical tattoos

Not your typical Catholic pilgrimage…

SPQR Roman Legion tattoo, with "Legio IX Britannia" below it. Yes, I do realize the actual historical name of the Roman Legion that fought in Britiain was "Legio IX Hispana". However, I wanted to be creative about, and as a sign of respect to both sides who fought and died in Britian during that time period, to rename it to what the Romans called the island, "Britannia".

Well, thanks for thinking Id know this! I tend to get a bit anal about finding out everything about something i like haha anyway I tried to figure this out a few months back and what I found out was…

1000 Tattoos explores the art of tattoos, past and present, and from all around the world. BuzzFeed takes a peek inside the re-release.

Travel narratives about Holy-Land pilgrimage tattoos are one of my go-to evidence banks for demonstrating the significant presence and visibility of tattooing in the early modern period (defined as…

AS IT sits just under the skin, body art is often lost as a corpse rots away, but in rare cases it remains perfectly preserved thousands of years after death.

Sutherland MacDonald, widely regarded as one of the greatest tattoo artists of his day, opened a shop in the St James's' area of Westminster, London, in 1894.

In 1856, a 19-year-old girl named Olive Oatman caused a big stir in Arizona. The daughter of white settlers who were murdered on their way to California, ...