If tattoos are prone to fading within a single human lifetime, imagine the wear-and-tear on the tattoos of 1,200-year-old ...

A new study sheds light on tattoo designs found on more than 100 mummies from Chancay culture, a group that lived on the ...

An international team of researchers introduced a new technique called Introducing Laser-Stimulated Fluorescence, or LSF.

My husband is Peruvian and he wasn't happy in the US. We moved back to Peru and I learned the rich culture of the country. I ...

According to a Live Science report, paleobiologist Michael Pittman of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and his colleagues ...

In a new study, researchers used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on mummies from Peru.

“We present the first results of applying LSF to tattoos on human remains from the pre-Columbian Chancay culture of coastal Peru,” the researchers wrote in the study paper. The researchers ...

A new laser-based technique has revealed the intricate details of tattoos on centuries-old mummies in Peru, archaeologists ...

For more than 5,000 years, humans have adorned themselves with tattoos, leaving a legacy of ink that spans millennia. Now, modern technology is peeling back the layers of history - literally - by ...

A new method of imaging tattoos has uncovered designs executed with extraordinary care on mummies from the Chancay culture in ...