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 ...

Intricate patterns in the tattoos of 1,200-year-old mummies from Peru were revealed using a new laser-based technique. But not everyone believes the new technique is better than existing methods ...

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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 fourth annual Capitol City Classic Tattoo Convention is underway this weekend in Sacramento. The event at the Safe Credit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aliaksandr Barouski – stock.adobe.com Lacoste explained that his clients who undergo general anesthesia typically do so to get intricate tattoos that cover a lot of surface area and take up to ...

Called the Chancay, they left behind a wealth of cultural remains, including intricate tattoos that are preserved to this day on the skin of mummified individuals. New details of these tattoos ...

"Cybersigilism combines futuristic imagery with spiritual or esoteric symbols of the past into one dynamic tattoo," read Allure's website. "Characterized by intricate patterns, thin lines ...