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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A team of international scientists recently revealed the stunning tattoo work of the Chancay culture—a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Ancient Nubian tattoos on children reshape ideas about belief, care, and the body. Along the Nile, in what is now Sudan, ...

An 800-year-old mummy donated to a museum in Italy a century ago has revealed new clues about ancient face tattoos. But the mummy's origin remains shrouded in mystery. Some time prior to 1930, the ...

Nearly a century ago in the frigid Altai Mountains of southern Siberia, explorers discovered frozen tombs. They were described as “mounded monuments” with underground chambers “lined with log ...