Tigers, stags and a leopard twist around each other, the animals’ stylized and intricate details spread in ink across a woman’s forearm. On her hand is the delicate outline of a bird with a fluffy ...

Caspari and his colleagues turned to cutting-edge infrared photography to image in three dimensions the tattoos on the arms ...

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

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

Researchers have discovered a series of tattoos on a woman, believed to have been around 50 at the time of her death.

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

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

Interestingly, the study’s authors noted that the mummy’s right forearm tattoos were more technically proficient and detailed ...

THE intricate tattoos of a 2,500-year-old Siberian “ice mummy” have finally been revealed through high-tech imaging. The ...

An international team of archaeologists has used high-resolution digital imaging techniques to examine tattoos on a more than ...

An international research team led by the University of Bern has analysed tattoos on a Siberian glacial mummy that is over ...

A new analysis used near-infrared photography to shed light on the methods and tools for creating tattoos in the Early Iron ...