For centuries, body art has served as a powerful reflection of personal identity and cultural values. Far from serving as simple decoration, tattooing in ancient communities often had far more ...

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Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

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 ...

A culture flourished along the central Peruvian coast from about A.D. 900 to 1500. Called the Chancay, they left behind a wealth of cultural remains, including intricate tattoos that are preserved to ...

In the frigid landscape of Siberia, frozen tombs held ice mummies with newly analyzed tattoos. Roman Purtov via Unsplash Nearly a century ago in the frigid Altai Mountains of southern Siberia, ...

Date: Fourth to Third centuries B.C. Some of the most spectacular tattoos in the ancient world have been found adorning Iron Age mummies unearthed in the Altay Mountains of Siberia. There, a series of ...

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 ...