OK. There are like 22 comments here. So let us make it 23 and my 2cents worth. As far as I know the Sumerians had tattoos as well. But coming closer to time, the Indochinese engrave tattoos for religious reasons. So if a Viet or Cambod sport one, they are wearing them as amulets, etc with the sanction of their Buddhistic faiths.
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