The ancient tattoos, which would have required trained artistry and hours of work, would be difficult for even modern ...

Caspari and his colleagues turned to cutting-edge infrared photography to image in three dimensions the tattoos on the arms ...

Using near-infrared imaging, researchers uncovered extraordinary hand-poked designs of tigers, griffins and tiny roosters on ...

As in modern times, tattooing in ancient Siberia was an art that required formal training and artistic sensibilities, ...

Tattoos are rare in the archaeological record, because skin rarely survives the centuries. But in the permafrost of the Altai ...

Researchers reconstructed a roughly 2,000-year-old woman’s tattoos, from prowling tigers to a fantastical griffinlike creature.

Researchers have discovered a series of tattoos on a woman, believed to have been around 50 at the time of her death.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered an “anomaly” which could reveal a secret portal underneath the tombs of Pharaohs. Researchers ...

Scientists analyzed the skin of a 2500-year-old Siberian "ice mummy" and found complex tattoos that are far more ...

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