More often than not, what we think of as Vikings, were actually Ancient Norse seafarers. The Ancient Norse seafarers were … ...

Researchers have used laser technology to uncover vivid details of 1,200-year-old tattoos on Peruvian mummies, revealing insights into ancient tattooing practices. These tattoos, created with ...

on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm in the Nordic Sea. “They symbolized fertility and were probably sacrificed to ensure sun and growth,” Rune Iversen, a co-author of the ...

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 Peru.

The oldest known tattoos were found on remains of a Neolithic man who lived in the Italian Alps around 3,000 BC. Many mummies from ancient Egypt also have tattoos, as do remains from cultures ...

And it turns out they were much more sophisticated than we would ever have thought," Pittman added. The oldest known tattoos were found on remains of a Neolithic man who lived in the Italian Alps ...

Researchers used lasers to uncover intricate tattoo designs on mummies from Peru's ancient Chancay culture. The tattoos, dating around 1250 A.D., reveal geometric shapes visible through non ...

Tattoos on mummies degrade over time due to decay and ink bleed, making it difficult to study their original designs. But now, a new laser-based technique is shedding new light on these ancient ...

Credit: Kaye et al., PNAS. In the hushed darkness of a laboratory, ancient Peruvian tattoos glowed with new life. As lasers swept across the mummified remains of the Chancay people, once-hidden ...

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 Peru.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Researchers have used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on mummies from Peru ...

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 ...