Analysis of a mummy kept for a century at the University of Turin in Italy has revealed rare face tattoos made with a special ...

Anthropologists and archaeologists from the University of Turin in Italy discovered unusual facial tattoos while examining the remains of an approximately 800-year-old South American female mummy ...

Right cheek of the mummy showing tattoos of three horizontal black lines. | Credit: G. Mangiapane et al. An 800-year-old mummy ... "There are a small number of ethnographic accounts from the ...