Using a newly developed laser technique, an international team of researchers identified the intricate tattoo designs on mummified human remains that date back to Peru’s Chancay culture.

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 ...

Tattoos fade over time ... were especially intrigued by the thinness of some of the lines that made up the intricate designs, finding the level of precision to be “higher than associated ...

A new laser-based technique has revealed the intricate details of tattoos on centuries-old mummies in Peru, archaeologists report in a new study. However, not everyone is convinced that the new ...

In doing so, we achieved a new capability in the study of tattoos that had never been achieved before," Pittman said. The team managed to identify intricate geometric and zoomorphic (representing ...

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.