Archaeologists unearthed two ancient Maya tattooing tools, retouched chert fragments, in a Belizean ritual cave. This ...

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 ...

A woman buried more than 2000 years ago in the icy Altai Mountains of Siberia has become the unlikely subject of one of the most exciting archaeological tattoo studies in recent years. Preserved in ...

Living along the coast of Peru from around 900 to 1500 A.D., the Chancay people was well known for their impressive artwork, including wood carvings, ceramics, and textiles. However, one of the ...

For centuries, the tattoos lay hidden beneath ageing skin, too faint to be clearly seen. Archaeologists had studied the mummy ...

A UW La Crosse senior is combining two passions—archaeology and tattoos—into a groundbreaking research project that's ...

From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery, we know that the Maya engaged in various forms of body modification, including piercing, body painting, scarification, and tattooing. However, no ...

An international team of archaeologists has used high-resolution digital imaging techniques to examine tattoos on a more than 2,000-year-old ice mummy from the Pazyryk culture of Siberia, shedding ...

One of the most stubborn misconceptions about tattooing is that it was born in Polynesia and imported to the West by Captain Cook in 1768, then trickled down to the masses over the next century, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Living along the coast of Peru from around 900 to 1500 A.D., the Chancay people was well known for their ...