A team of scientists from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London became the first researchers to utilize a ...

If tattoos are prone to fading within a single human lifetime, imagine the wear-and-tear on the tattoos of 1,200-year-old ...

World's Earliest Figural Tattoos Found On 5,000-Yr-Old Natural Male and Female Egyptian Mummies Tattoos have been significant ...

Researchers used lasers to uncover intricate, hidden tattoos on 13th-century Peruvian mummies, revealing details of ancient ...

In a new study, researchers used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on mummies from Peru.

Tutankhamun's mummy and his grand burial goods have provided precious information about ancient Egyptian art, culture, and burial practices. King Tut haa often been described as a boy king who ...

These include texts hidden inside medieval book bindings or ancient Egyptian mummy wrappings, for which “it’s here, and we hold the physical object, but we can’t read the writing”.

According to ancient writers, Protagoras chiefly made his living by coaching wealthy youth in the art of rhetoric for use in the courtroom. Protagoras argued that if two opposing claims were presented ...

The mummy is the first evidence of the spread of the disease outside the continents of Europe and Asia. Researchers wrote in their abstract that this discovery provides molecular evidence on the ...

Samples of the Black Death, which wiped out as many as 50 million people in medieval Europe, have been found in an ancient Egyptian mummy. The pandemic, also known as bubonic plague, spread ...