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 ...

We often think of tattoo art as a relatively new phenomenon but evidence of tattoos on humans dates back several thousands of years. Now, the discovery of artistic tattoos on an two Egyptian mummies ...

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 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 ...

Some ancient Egyptian mothers got tattoos that were likely meant to protect them during childbirth and during the postpartum period, an analysis of their mummies reveals. When you purchase through ...

Infrared image of the male mummy known as Gebelein Man (all images © the Trustees of the British Museum unless otherwise noted) About 5,000 years ago, a young ...

More than 3,000 years ago, an ancient Egyptian woman tattooed her body with dozens of symbols — including lotus blossoms, cows and divine eyes — that may have been linked to her religious status or ...

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 ...

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Ancient Egyptian women sported "tramp stamps" tattoos to protect them during childbirth, new evidence has found. Rather than the derogatory modern meaning attached to inked designs on the lower back, ...

The world's oldest tattoos showing figures have been discovered on the arms of two 5,000-year-old Egyptian mummies. Hiding in plain sight, the naturally preserved remains of a man and a woman ...