THE BES OF LUCK
Tattoos are fashionable these days, but they have an ancient pedigree in various functional contexts, one example being the finding of two researchers from U. Missouri (St Louis) and John Hopkins University. They have discovered tattoos on two female mummies that had been removed from their tombs in Deir el-Medina, Egypt (an active town 1550-1070 BC). One of the mummies was unwrapped, the other wrapped. A tattoo could be made out on the mummified skin of the
