Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and KingsIn 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