Intricate patterns in the tattoos of 1,200-year-old mummies from Peru were revealed using a new laser-based technique. But ...

Centuries-old mummified remains from pre-Hispanic South America demonstrate the widespread practice of tattooing. Tattoos ...

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A team of scientists from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London became the first researchers to utilize a ...

If tattoos are prone to fading within a single human lifetime, imagine the wear-and-tear on the tattoos of 1,200-year-old ...

A new laser-based technique has revealed the intricate details of tattoos on centuries-old mummies in Peru, archaeologists ...

According to a Live Science report, paleobiologist Michael Pittman of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and his colleagues ...

The intricate tattoos of animal forms and geometric shapes were revealed when researchers scanned the mummies with lasers.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than 5,000 years, humans have adorned themselves with tattoos. In a new study, researchers used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on mummies from ...

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“We present the first results of applying LSF to tattoos on human remains from the pre-Columbian Chancay culture of coastal Peru,” the researchers wrote in the study paper. The researchers ...