Their mummified bodies still had visible outlines of ink, although these markings had become faint over time ... Some of these patterns were more exact and elaborate than other artifacts from the era, ...

Read more about this story and why we reported it here. The underground art of prison tattoos has gone mainstream at Delaware’s largest lockup. In recent weeks, men imprisoned at James T.

The Brisbane/Meanjin tattoo scene has come on a lot over the last few years. Places like Tradition Tattoo and West Side Tattoo have been going strong for a while now, but the city has a bunch of ...

Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez has highlighted several areas high on the agenda of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), as it embarks on a busy work schedule for 2025. Speaking at a ...

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 ...

“The Chancay culture, known for its mass-produced textiles, also invested significant effort in personal body art. This could point to tattoos as a second major artistic focus, perhaps carrying ...

"Laser-stimulated fluorescence lets us see tattoos in their full glory, erasing centuries of degradation," says paleontologist Thomas Kaye of the Foundation for Scientific Advancement in the US. "The ...

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

Tattoos were a prevalent art form in pre-Hispanic South America, as attested by the discovery of mummified human remains in the region with preserved skin decoration that date back centuries ...

With a tool often used in the study of dinosaur fossils, scientists uncovered new details in ornate tattoos on the skin ... interpreting the meaning of body art to past societies.

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 ...

NHS Ayrshire & Arran’s Public Health team is reminding people across Ayrshire to know the risks when it comes to tattoos and body art. The team is working with Environmental Health in East ...