An international team of anthropologists, cultural heritage specialists and lab analysts has found tattoos of a type never seen before on the face and arm of an 800-year-old Andean mummy. Their paper ...

T attoos found on the face and arm of an ancient South American mummy are completely unlike any other known examples of ...

The image many have in mind of Greek sculptures—noble looking with a bit of an emptiness about the eyes—might be slightly ...

From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery, we know that the Maya engaged in various forms of body modification, ...