Deep in the northern Philippines lives Whang-Od, a 107-year-old woman described as the last remaining tribal tattoo artist of her kind. She creates ink from charcoal, uses a thorn from a tree as her ...

Over 5,300 years ago, a young Egyptian woman endured the sharp tapping of a metal ‘prick point’ as someone tattooed dark blue figures across her right shoulder and arm. Four vertical S-shaped motifs ...