In 2014, the British Museum revealed the existence of the only other known Medieval Nubian tattoo — a marking found on the inner thigh tattoo of a woman living along the Nile around 655 to 775 CE.

An artist draws henna tattoos on a woman's hand in Aswan, Egypt, Feb. 12, 2020. In Nubian villages in Upper Egypt's province of Aswan by the Nile River, it is common to see a local or foreign ...

Recently, a team of researchers published their study on a medieval Nubian tattoo in Antiquity. The researchers conducted a post-excavation analysis on individuals who had been interred at the ...

The tattoo's owner was buried at the Ghazali monastery, located 9.3 miles from the banks of the Nile in Northern Sudan, and was most likely one of the monks living in the community.