Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. McGill University postdoctoral fellow Logan James, an affiliated researcher with the nonprofit Earth Species ...
The study focused on four individuals with “exceptional tattoos" - designs of geometric shapes such as triangles and diamonds, said study co-author Michael Pittman, an archaeologist at the ...
It allowed the researchers to see lines as narrow as one-tenth of a millimetre on the mummies’ skins, revealing intricate geometric, plant and animal designs. The tattoo art was more intricate ...
The team studied tattoos with a variety of patterns on more than 100 mummies. Some tattoos were geometric, featuring shapes like triangles and diamonds. Others included vine-like patterns and ...
The intricate details of tattoos inscribed on the skin of South American mummies are now revealed in all their breathtaking glory. With a technique used to study dinosaur fossils, a team of scientists ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Researchers have used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on mummies from Peru ...
In doing so, we achieved a new capability in the study of tattoos that had never been achieved before," Pittman said. The team managed to identify intricate geometric and zoomorphic (representing ...
Tattoos seem to have been important to the Chancay, says Pittman, as they are found on a large proportion of known mummified human remains. “Many of the designs, geometric patterns featuring ...