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Well, 5000 years and counting.

• danieltillett 10y ago
  I think tattoos are even older than this. Tattoos will continue to exist, but they won't be fashionable.
  • masklinn 10y ago
    > I think tattoos are even older than this. Ötzi is the oldest tattooed body we have and thus the oldest hard evidence of that practice. While there is peripheral evidence of probable earlier tattooing (Cucuteni-Trypillian sculptures, and how wide-spread confirmed tattooing practices are circa 1000~2000BCE), we don't have anything hard before Ötzi (circa 3000BCE). Incidentally, Ötzi's tattoos seem to be therapeutic rather than artistic.