The depth of the writer’s commitment is tested when he meets with a Southern Californian tattooist proficient in ancient ...

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In a new study, researchers from Michigan State University have revealed how people make judgements based on someone's ...

An Egyptian genome has finally been unraveled, thanks to a sample from an at least 4,500 year-old mummy dating back to the ...

Researchers wanted to know if today’s mummies still carry traces of the original embalming materials. And if so, could those scents help museums better preserve and explain thes ...

Watch the PlayStation 4 Launch Trailer for Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, a third-person action-adventure game developed by THQ Nordic. Embark on a quest to thwart the evil god Set, recover the stolen ...

Tattoos in ancient Egypt The next earliest evidence of tattoos comes from mummies thought to have died between 3351 and 3017 B.C. in ancient Egypt. Discovered in 1900, the bodies were found to ...

In Egypt, Anne Austin, an archaeologist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, has found dozens of tattoos on female mummies, including hieroglyphics suggesting the tattoos were associated with ...

In 2018, a separate group of researchers found the world’s “oldest figurative tattoos” on 5,000-year-old (in other words, pre-pharaoh) Egyptian mummies.

Thanks to high-tech photography, researchers can now see previously hidden tattoos on ancient Egyptian mummies. Infrared photography was used to help identify tattoos on seven mummified Egyptians ...

TATTOOS depicting animals, gods and floral patterns have been found "hidden" on 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummies. The ancient body art, revealed by high-tech photography and found on seven female ...