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 ...

My husband is Peruvian and he wasn't happy in the US. We moved back to Peru and I learned the rich culture of the country. I ...

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

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.

In a new study, researchers used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on mummies from Peru.

A new study sheds light on tattoo designs found on more than 100 mummies from Chancay culture, a group that lived on the ...

With a tool often used in the study of dinosaur fossils, scientists uncovered new details in ornate tattoos on the skin of members of the Chancay culture of Peru.

“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 ...