Tigers, stags and a leopard twist around each other, the animals’ stylized and intricate details spread in ink across a woman ...

Tattoos are rare in the archaeological record, because skin rarely survives the centuries. But in the permafrost of the Altai ...

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 ...

As in modern times, tattooing in ancient Siberia was an art that required formal training and artistic sensibilities, ...

Tattoos may have been widespread in prehistory, with scientists discovering a plethora of body art on a pastoralist who died ...

New research into a Central Asian ice mummy has revealed the full details of an Iron Age woman's many intricate tattoos.

Archaeologists have used cutting edge techniques to reveal new information about the intricate tattoos of a woman that lived ...

Caspari and his colleagues turned to cutting-edge infrared photography to image in three dimensions the tattoos on the arms ...

THE intricate tattoos of a 2,500-year-old Siberian “ice mummy” have finally been revealed through high-tech imaging. The ...

An international team of archaeologists has used high-resolution digital imaging techniques to examine tattoos on a more than ...

Interestingly, the study’s authors noted that the mummy’s right forearm tattoos were more technically proficient and detailed ...

Researchers have discovered a series of tattoos on a woman, believed to have been around 50 at the time of her death.