Tattoos

Tattoos for healing & social signaling among the ancients

I’ve been reading The Amazons by Adrienne Mayor as part of the research to fully develop the nomadic tribe of spider-herders inhabiting the central plain of the region my novel Civil Mage takes place in. There’s a lot of interesting information about how tattooing practices varied in the Ancient World, so I decided to head down the rabbit hole.

Fun Facts

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