Lasers are typically used to remove tattoos from the skin with mixed results. These tight beams of light can also reveal the ink that once decorated 1,200-year-old pieces of mummified skin.

“That’s what Christmas is about. That’s what Macy’s light show is about. That’s why I got this tattoo.” The Sugarmans, who grew up in Northeast Philadelphia, attended Northeast ...

Mummies’ skin glows brightly when scanned by a laser, revealing the fine details of any tattoos on the preserved body part 1. Getting inked has been a tradition for more than 5,000 years ...

Recent finds contain tattoos with exceptional details, an area that seems to have been grossly underestimated initially. Dr. Li and team believed that any ink dot that appeared on the subject's ...

A new study sheds light on tattoo designs found on more than 100 mummies from Chancay culture, a group that lived on the Peruvian coast between roughly 900 and 1500 C.E. Julia Binswanger Daily ...