Much before states had discovered documents as an identification, they used different forms of writing on the body. There has been a long history of methods of Identification. Ancient methods of identification involved Ôwriting on the body, or branding, scarification and tattooingÕ. Partly because they had not discovered less invasive of marking, they restored to such writing with documents becoming an accepted way to record identities, various cards, certificates and others and other Identifications were used. However, these forms of writing never died out completely even after identification documents were discovered.