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 ...

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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 ...

“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 ...

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One of the first applications of laser-stimulated fluorescence in anthropology, the tattoos contain lines only 0.1 millimeter ...

A team of scientists from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London became the first researchers to utilize a ...

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With a tool often used in the study of dinosaur fossils, scientists uncovered new details in ornate tattoos on the skin of members of the Chancay culture of Peru.