Ötzi the Iceman, whose 5,300-year-old body was found by hikers in the Tyrolean Alps, has 61 tattoos. Scientists now think they understand the technique behind them.

Ötzi the Iceman, whose 5,300-year-old body was found by hikers in the Tyrolean Alps, has 61 tattoos. Scientists now think they understand the technique behind them.

Ötzi the Iceman’s 61 tattoos weren’t made in the way archaeologists first thought. By CNN Newsource. ... that pinpointed Ötzi’s body art as the oldest known examples of tattooing.