File:Scythian tatoo.jpg

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Source: http://hermitagemuseum.org/html_Ru/03/hm3_2_7b.html

A tattoo on the right arm of a Scythian chieftain, whose mummy was found at Pazyryk (5th century BC). Preserved in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

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