An 800-year-old mummy donated to a museum in Italy a century ago has revealed new clues about ancient face tattoos. But the mummy's origin remains shrouded in mystery.

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest tattoos on the arm of a 5,000-year-old Egyptian mummy on display at the British Museum. The astonishing find – which rewrites the history o… ...

Researchers Discover 800-Year-Old South American Mummy With Unique Facial Tattoos, Ink Used Was Different Too For centuries, archaeologists and anthropologists have turned to the past in search of ...

Covered in more than 30 tattoos of flowers, animals, and sacred symbols, this 3,000-year-old mummy is one of the most unusual that archaeologist Anne Austin has ever seen. Though other mummies ...

Tattoos found at the mummy's neck show several Wadjet eyes — a sign associated with the divine and with protection. Ann Austin More than 3,000 years ago, an ancient Egyptian woman tattooed her ...

Archaeologists baffled to find strange 800-year-old mummy with face tattoos Analysis reveals surprising absence of charcoal, the most commonly used tattoo material reported in literature, in ...

TAT'S AMAZING Mysterious mummy with face tattoos STILL visible after 800yrs found & scientists are baffled by the ink that was used ...

This Mummy Had an Angel Tattooed on Her Leg A 1,300 year old Egyptian mummy was found to have the tattoo of an angel on her inner thigh ...

The newly reported tattoos are the first on a mummy from dynastic Egypt to show actual objects, among them lotus blossoms on the mummy’s hips, cows on her arm and baboons on her neck.

Images released by the British Museum show a Christian tattoo high on the inner thigh of a Sudanese woman who was mummified 1,300 years ago.

Analysis of a mummy kept for a century at the University of Turin in Italy has revealed rare face tattoos made with a special black ink.