As researchers discover overlooked tattoos on mummies from around the world, it's prompting new insights about some of the world's oldest ink. This mummy, held at the Museo Maria Reiche in Nazca, 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 America, ...

With a tool often used in the study of dinosaur fossils, scientists uncovered new details in ornate tattoos on the skin of members of the Chancay culture of Peru. By Becky Ferreira A culture ...

Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of understanding our ancestors. Archaeologist Aaron Deter-Wolf, pictured in his office ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...