In the late 1940s, the Soviet Archaeology Institute dispatched Sergei Rudenko to explore burial mounds 3,000 miles away in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia. The adventure did not disappoint.

The 5,000-year-old Ötzi the Iceman mummy had 61 tattoos preserved on his body, and nobody knows the method by which they got there. A new research study experimented with differing tattoo tools and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 3D model of the tattooed ice mummy who belonged to the nomadic group known as the Pazyryk. The top images was created from visible ...

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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 ...

As in modern times, tattooing in ancient Siberia was an art that required formal training and artistic sensibilities, researchers say. Reading time 3 minutes For the first time, archeologists have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman who lived and died 2,000 years ago in the Altai Mountains of Siberia is opening a new window into ancient tattoos. A ...

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An international team of anthropologists, cultural heritage specialists and lab analysts has found tattoos of a type never seen before on the face and arm of an 800-year-old Andean mummy. Their paper ...

Researchers have used new imaging technology to make a surprising discovery on a 2,500-year-old ‘ice mummy’ in Siberia. Archaeologists have found evidence of a series of incredibly intricate tattoos ...

Otzi, a 5,000-year-old mummy, has 61 tattoos arranged in 19 groups across his body. Researchers used a unique camera sensitive to invisible light to discover the exact number and location of all of ...