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In the late 1940s, the Soviet Archaeology Institute dispatched Sergei Rudenko to explore burial mounds 3,000 miles away in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia. The adventure did not disappoint.

The 5,000-year-old Ötzi the Iceman mummy had 61 tattoos preserved on his body, and nobody knows the method by which they got there. A new research study experimented with differing tattoo tools and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 3D model of the tattooed ice mummy who belonged to the nomadic group known as the Pazyryk. The top images was created from visible ...

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Long before tattoo shops offered walk-in flash tats and Pinterest boards flooded with minimalist linework, people were getting inked for reasons we’re still figuring out. A Siberian mummy just gave us ...

An 800-year-old mummy from Peru’s Chancay culture has turned up with something archaeologists rarely see: tattoos on the cheeks. The discovery, reported in the Journal of Cultural Heritage, adds a new ...

As in modern times, tattooing in ancient Siberia was an art that required formal training and artistic sensibilities, researchers say. Reading time 3 minutes For the first time, archeologists have ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Otzi, a 5,000-year-old mummy, has 61 tattoos arranged in 19 groups across his body. Researchers used a unique camera sensitive to invisible light to discover the exact number and location of all of ...

The ornate tattoos of a 2,500-year-old Siberian “ice mummy” have finally been revealed using advanced imaging technology, according to a report. High-resolution images derived using infrared ...