title: Les secrets des croyances sahariennes à travers les tatouages des tous premiers tatoués
abstract: Summary : Several naturally mummified human bodies have been exhumed near Gebelein (40 km south of Thebes). Six of them (EA 32751-32756) were obtained for the British Museum in 1899 by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, who claimed to have witnessed their excavation (BUDGE, 1920). Apparently, all the bodies had been buried in the foetal position, at a shallow depth in the sand, in accordance with predynastic traditions and surrounded by objects echoing Saharan rock art. The first approach to understanding 
journal: SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository