Renée Friedman is an Egyptologist and a professor at Oxford University. She’s been the director of the Hierakonpolis archaeological expedition in the Aswan region of Egypt for over two decades. Friedman discovered tattoos on two 5,000 year-old Egyptian mummies at the British Museum in London, now believed to be the oldest known figural tattoos in the world. One of the mummies is also the oldest known tattooed woman in the world.