Maybe they hold a fascination for me 
Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice at least since around Neolithic times. Ötzi the Iceman, dating from the fourth to fifth millennium BC, was found in the Ötz valley in the Alps and had approximately 57 carbon tattoos consisting of simple dots and lines on his lower spine, behind his left knee, and on his right ankle.Brad Pitt with Otzi tattoo ! Here's a view of the Otzi the Iceman's back.
(or Samoan "Tatau") appears in the journal of Joseph Banks,
the naturalist aboard Cook's ship "The Endeavour", in 1769:
"I shall now mention the way they mark themselves indelibly, each of them is so marked by their humor or disposition"
Things seem to have exploded since then ....................
Ex-soldier Shaun Clark has all 232 names (2009) of troops killed in Afghanistan tattooed on his body. Tattooed tongue or eyes
A brief history of tattoo's The worst tattoo's ever
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