Ben Affleck has a massive phoenix tattooed on his back. He initially lied to press saying it was for a movie, but eventually ...

A new study sheds light on tattoo designs found on more than 100 mummies from Chancay culture, a group that lived on the Peruvian coast between roughly 900 and 1500 C.E. Julia Binswanger Daily ...

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Researchers are using lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on the mummies from Peru. It is not clear how the tattoos were created, but they are “of a quality that stands ...

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which could mean varying skill levels among the artists who created them. To compare it to tattoo artists today, some marks may have been made by apprentice-level tattooists, while the more intricate ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Researchers have used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on mummies from Peru ...

Researchers have unveiled long "hidden" and finely detailed tattoo designs on the skin of ancient mummies from Peru, a study reports. Tattoos were a prevalent art form in pre-Hispanic South ...

This almost completely eliminates the issue of tattoos bleeding and fading over time, which can obscure the design, according ... don't know what these tattoos mean, their intricate nature does ...

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 Peru.

The intricate details of tattoos inked more than 1200 years ago have been made visible by scanning South American mummies with lasers. The mummies, belonging to a pre-Hispanic people known as the ...

Their tattoos are roughly 1,000 years old and display ornate geometric designs, reminiscent of scales ... is an important step in interpreting the meaning of body art to past societies.