Researchers used lasers to uncover intricate, hidden tattoos on 13th-century Peruvian mummies, revealing details of ancient ...

The tattoos of 1200-year-old mummies from Peru can now be seen in exquisite detail, showing fine markings that may have been ...

A new laser-based technique has revealed the intricate details of tattoos on centuries-old mummies in Peru, archaeologists ...

A mummy, to put it bluntly, is an old dead body. But unlike a skeleton or a fossil, a mummy still retains some of the soft tissue it had when it was alive—most often skin, but sometimes organs ...

Using a cutting-edge technique called laser-stimulated fluorescence (LSF), researchers uncovered details that had been ...

An curved arrow pointing right. King Francis I of France carried ground up mummy with him at all times in case of emergency. That's because mummy was widely used medicinally for thousands of years.

Researchers have unveiled long "hidden" and finely detailed tattoo designs on the skin of ancient mummies from Peru, a study reports. Tattoos were a prevalent art form in pre-Hispanic South ...

In other words, mummies are people too, but visitors don't see them as such. Research looking into how museum-goers experienced a display of a mummified Egyptian woman known as Irtyru found that ...