Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings Economic systems & structures Presented in a durable hardback

Presented in a durable hardback binding

Acting like the perfect couple isn’t easy

Strange and terrible events have happened here

Lithuanian author Ruta Vanagaite holds an extended conversation with noted historian Christoph Dieckmann

Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings Economic systems & structures Presented in a durable hardbackIn 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing an art without a history. No one, it went on, has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing. Until now. Painted People is a beguiling and intimate look at an untold history of humanity. The earliest tattoos yet identified belonged to tzi, the iceman, whose mummy allows us a brief glimpse into the prehistory of the practice. We know that over the more than five