For over five thousand years, tattoos have served as markers of identity, status and spirituality. A ground-breaking study ...

A statue of the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro has been reinstalled in the centre of Peru's capital Lima, more than ...

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 celebration of art, culture, and family is now on display at the Kemp Center for the Arts, featuring the multi-generational ...

Bonifacia, one of seven sisters from the Omuto Community, Province of Urcos, is dressed in a cherry-pink wool jacket ...

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

Mummies’ skin glows brightly when scanned by a laser, revealing the fine details of any tattoos on the preserved body part 1.

Using a cutting-edge technique called laser-stimulated fluorescence (LSF), researchers uncovered details that had been ...

Scientists use advanced laser technology to reveal incredibly precise hidden tattoos on more than 100 mummies found in Peru.

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

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