3,000 year old Deir el-Medin mummy discovered with 30 tattoos of religious symbols: Last month, Stanford professor Anne Austin presented the results of her findings on the first detailed study of human remains at the Egyptian site of Deir el-Medin, and through the use of computed tomography and infrared reflectography, used it to detect tattoos on ancient Egyptian mummies that were invisible to the eye due to darkening from mummification resins. Some tattoos, however, needed no sophisticated tools to be visible, such as a prominent throat tattoo depicting two seated baboons between a wadjet eye, the first image in a series of five at Nature. (Click on embedded image in article to open the image gallery)