红外图像揭示了埃及女性木乃伊身上隐藏的纹身

红外图像揭示了埃及女性木乃伊身上隐藏的纹身

Thanks to high-tech photography, researchers can now see previously hidden tattoos on ancient Egyptian mummies.

多亏了高科技摄影技术，研究人员现在可以看到以前隐藏在古埃及木乃伊上的纹身。

Infrared photography was used to help identify tattoos on seven mummified Egyptians dating as far back as around 1000 B.C. at a site known as Deir el-Medina, according to archaeologist Anne Austin of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, who recently reported her findings at a meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research.

据密苏里-圣路易斯大学的考古学家安妮·奥斯汀(Anne Austin)最近在美国东方研究学院的一次会议上报告了她的发现。她说，红外线摄影有助于鉴定7具埃及木乃伊上的纹身，这些纹身可以追溯到公元前1000年左右。

Prior to these discoveries, tattoos had only been found on six mummies over more than 100 years of research at ancient sites in Egypt.

在这些发现之前，在埃及古遗址100多年的研究中，只在6具木乃伊身上发现了纹身。

“When I first saw [the tattoos] with infrared, I felt both the thrill of discovery and the magic of this new technology,” Austin told Fox News via email. “We were able to identify dozens of tattoos in a previous mummy published in 2017, which showed imagery of religious symbols, floral motifs and important animals like the cows of the goddess Hathor.”

奥斯汀通过电子邮件告诉福克斯新闻：“当我第一次用红外线看到(纹身)时，我既感受到了发现的刺激，也感受到了这项新技术的魔力。”。“我们在2017年出版的前一具木乃伊中发现了数十个纹身，这些纹身展示了宗教符号、花卉图案和重要动物的图像，比如哈索女神的奶牛。”

Austin explained to Fox News that the more recent finds have established tattoos on other mummies, but they have not yet detected anything identifiable by symbol and place.

奥斯汀向福克斯新闻解释说，最近的发现已经在其他木乃伊身上发现了纹身，但是他们还没有发现任何可以通过符号和位置来识别的东西。