Scientists have discovered the world's oldest tattoos hidden on two ancient Egyptian mummies believed to be about 5,000 years old. The tattoos, a wild bull, a Barbary sheep and an S-shaped motif, were ...

A 2,000-year-old female mummy from Siberia’s Pazyryk culture has yielded the clearest picture yet of ancient tattooing practices, thanks to a digital reconstruction that combined near-infrared ...

An 800-year-old mummy from Peru’s Chancay culture has turned up with something archaeologists rarely see: tattoos on the cheeks. The discovery, reported in the Journal of Cultural Heritage, adds a new ...

The world's oldest figurative tattoos have been discovered on two 5,000-year-old mummies from Egypt. Tattoos depicting a wild bull and a Barbary sheep were found on the upper arm of a male mummy, ...

The Moche culture of ancient Peru is noted for elaborately decorated ceramics, goldwork, textiles, and murals—and people. While actual physical evidence of tattooing is rare, there are a great number ...

Highly detailed tattoos on Peruvian mummies were made with “special effort” around 1,200 years ago, likely using cactus needles or sharpened animal bones, archaeologists say. Researchers used laser ...