Tattoos didn't spring up with the dawn of biker gangs and rock 'n' roll bands. They've been around for a long time and had many different meanings over the course of history. Let's sketch out the history of tattoos, their purpose, and just how they were created. For years, scientists believed that Egyptians and Nubians were the first people to tattoo their bodies. Then, in 1991, a mummy was discovered, dating back to the Bronze Age …showed first 75 words of 1013 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1013 total…financial crash of 1929. They became trendy in America again around World War II, with the introduction of new designs like cartoon characters. Tattooing made another leap for the mainstream in the '70s and '80s, when celebrities began sporting them. In the last decade, the policy of global acceptance and worldwide communication has not only made tattoos popular, but also omnipresent. With 5,000 years of tattooing tradition, nothing indicates that this is a vanishing fad.