Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:02 +0100 (AP) - Prof. Luc Renaut from the University of Poitiers, France, shows some body marks during the conference 'Into the Skin' - Identity, Symbols and History of permanent body marks, at the Pontifical Urbaniana University at the Vatican, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. Tattooed mummies in ancient Egypt, Crusaders who branded their foreheads with crosses and Catholics bearing the stigmata of Christ's wounds are fodder for an unusual conference at a Vatican university on the role of tattoos and permanent body markings throughout history. The conference is the brainchild of the Israeli ambassador to the Holy See, an unlikely expert in the field given the painful role that tattooed serial numbers played in the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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