Analyzing intricate tattoos found on 1,000-year-old mummies, the team discovered puncture lines between 0.1 to 0.2 millimeters wide in patterns reminiscent of details found on Chancay pottery and ...

Recent finds contain tattoos with exceptional details, an area that seems to have been grossly underestimated initially. Dr. Li and team believed that any ink dot that appeared on the subject's ...

YUMA, Ariz. (KPHO/KTVK/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A nine-year-old girl's new tattoo of an American flag has sparked mixed reactions on social media. A video of a nine-year-old girl receiving a ...

imagine the wear-and-tear on the tattoos of 1,200-year-old mummies. An international team of researchers has, for the first time, used lasers to reveal tattoos on mummies from Peru. Using this ...

Archaeologists have said in a new study that the intricate details of tattoos on centuries-old mummies in Peru have been revealed by a new laser-based technique. According to Live Science ...

A HEREFORDSHIRE woman has received her first ever tattoo, whilst in the care of a hospice. When 71-year-old Jackie, who is a patient at St Michael's Hospice, a local tattoo artist immediately came ...

Tattoos on mummies degrade over time due to decay and ink bleed, making it difficult to study their original designs.

YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY/NBC) - A nine-year-old girl from Turkey was flown to Yuma by her parents to get a tattoo. "I looked up the laws it was all legal, I was like lets see, lets see I mean I ...

Incredible precision: Scientists reveal intricate 1,200-year-old tattoo designs on Peruvian mummies. (photo credit: Michael Pittman and Thomas G Kaye) A study in the Proceedings of the National ...

Scientists used advanced laser scans to study 1,200-year-old tattoos on mummified individuals from the pre-Columbian Chancay culture, which developed along coastal Peru between 900AD and 1533AD.

Amazing, tattooed hand of an 800-year-old mummy. Credit: Kaye et al., PNAS. In the hushed darkness of a laboratory, ancient Peruvian tattoos glowed with new life. As lasers swept across the ...