1,400 years ago, Nubians tattooed their toddlers. Archaeologists are trying to figure out why.

An artist’s reconstruction of tattooing on the forehead of a 3-year-old girl from Kulubnarti. (Image credit: Mary Nguyen/UMSL) Kids as young as 18 months old were given facial tattoos in the Nile Valley region 1,400 years ago, archaeologists discovered while…








