Today, tattooing is more popular and accepted than ever before in history. People who get tattoos usually see them as a way of expressing themselves. In America, more than one third of young adults have at least one tattoo. They are considered cool, acceptable and attractive. In this article we will take a quick look at the history of tattooing.

Tattooing is one of the oldest ways of decorating the human body. The earliest evidence of this practice was discovered on a 5,300-year-old mummy found on a mountain between Austria and Italy. Otzi the Iceman, as the mummy is called, had more that 50 tattoos on his body consisting mostly of simple dots and lines on his lower back, left knee, and ankles.