What can a 2,000-year-old sculpture and a modern tattoo tell us about who we really are? In this episode, we travel from the Vatican Museums to a contemporary gallery in Milan, tracing a surprising thread between the ancient Laocoön and the tattooed bodies of today. Along the way, we meet Ötzi , Europe's oldest mummy and first known tattooed human, we explore how tattoos went from marks of shame to symbols of identity, and ask a question that's more relevant than ever: in a world that tells us how to look, what does it mean to make our bodies truly our own? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices