Found high in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991, Ötzi the Iceman had dark skin and eyes and was likely bald. His remarkably well-preserved remains, frozen beneath ice for about 5,300 years, revealed 61 ...

Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of ...

Found high in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991, Ötzi the Iceman had dark skin and eyes and was likely bald. His remarkably well-preserved remains, frozen beneath ice for about 5,300 years, revealed 61 ...

Fantastical animal imagery on the forearms of a 2,300-year-old mummified woman is revealing new information about the art of tattooing in ancient Siberia. Thanks to cutting-edge photography, ...

As in modern times, tattooing in ancient Siberia was an art that required formal training and artistic sensibilities, researchers say. reading time 3 minutes For the first time, archeologists have ...

A woman buried more than 2000 years ago in the icy Altai Mountains of Siberia has become the unlikely subject of one of the most exciting archaeological tattoo studies in recent years. Preserved in ...

Four small artifacts found on the island of Tongatapu, Tonga, are among the earliest tattooing equipment known. Two have been found to be made from human bone. Since their original discovery in 1963, ...

Researchers recently used near-infrared photography to get a detailed look at ancient artwork showing scenes of wild animals tangled in a fight. But these weren’t paintings on a cave wall. They were ...