Using near-infrared imaging, researchers uncovered extraordinary hand-poked designs of tigers, griffins and tiny roosters on ...

Researchers reconstructed a roughly 2,000-year-old woman’s tattoos, from prowling tigers to a fantastical griffinlike creature.

New imaging technology has allowed scientists to decipher the tattoos of an Iron Age mummy—and study them like never before.

Tigers, stags and a leopard twist around each other, the animals’ stylized and intricate details spread in ink across a woman ...

As in modern times, tattooing in ancient Siberia was an art that required formal training and artistic sensibilities, ...

And after using a novel imaging approach in consultation with professional tattoo artists, researchers at the University of ...

Tattoos may have been widespread in prehistory, with scientists discovering a plethora of body art on a pastoralist who died ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable glimpse into the past through the discovery of a 2,000-year-old mummy in the Altai ...

Archaeologists have used cutting edge techniques to reveal new information about the intricate tattoos of a woman that lived ...

Tattoos are rare in the archaeological record, because skin rarely survives the centuries. But in the permafrost of the Altai ...

The ornate tattoos of a 2,500-year-old Siberian ‘ice mummy’ have finally been revealed using advanced imaging technology, ...

New research into a Central Asian ice mummy has revealed the full details of an Iron Age woman's many intricate tattoos.