PHILADELPHIA (CNN) -- The world's oldest figurative tattoos have been discovered on two 5,000-year-old mummies from Egypt. Tattoos depicting a wild bull and a Barbary sheep were found on the upper arm ...

SAN DIEGO — Modern technology is illuminating tattoos on mummified, ancient Egyptians that until now had gone unnoticed. Infrared photography has helped to identify tattoos on seven mummified ...

Ancient Egyptian women wore ornate back tattoos to protect them during and after childbirth, a new study suggests. The hypothesis follows examination of mummified remains of two women with tattoo ...

Tattoos believed to be the world's oldest figurative body art have been discovered on a pair of well-preserved Egyptian mummies. Talk about ancient hipsters. Leslie Katz led a team that explored the ...

A mummy of an Egyptian woman dating back to 700 A.D. has been scanned and stripped to reveal a tattoo on her thigh that displays the name of the biblical archangel Michael. The discovery, announced by ...

In this Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 photo, Egyptian 25-year-old Tamer el-Strafy takes a cigarette break at 'Nowhere Land Tattoo Studio,' in Cairo, Egypt. In a country where tattoos are considered taboo ...

TATTOOS depicting animals, gods and floral patterns have been found “hidden” on 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummies. The ancient body art, found on seven female mummies, may help shed light on why the ...

A Stanford archaeologist says they had religious and symbolic purposes. Stanford University archaeologist Anne Austin found intricately designed tattoos on the body of a 3,000-year-old woman from ...

This undated photo provided by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities shows tattoos on a mummy in Luxor, Egypt. A French archeological mission discovered several tattoos on a 3,000-year-old mummy in ...