Centuries-old mummified remains from pre-Hispanic South America demonstrate the widespread practice of tattooing. Tattoos ...

My husband is Peruvian and he wasn't happy in the US. We moved back to Peru and I learned the rich culture of the country. I ...

A new laser-based technique has revealed the intricate details of tattoos on centuries-old mummies in Peru, archaeologists ...

The intricate tattoos of animal forms and geometric shapes were revealed when researchers scanned the mummies with lasers.

A team of researchers in Peru looked at tattoos on more than 100 mummified bodies from the Chancay culture, which inhabited ...

According to a Live Science report, paleobiologist Michael Pittman of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and his colleagues ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

A new study sheds light on tattoo designs found on more than 100 mummies from Chancay culture, a group that lived on the ...

“We present the first results of applying LSF to tattoos on human remains from the pre-Columbian Chancay culture of coastal Peru,” the researchers wrote in the study paper. The researchers ...