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Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

A frozen burial site in southern Siberia has just given up one of its oldest secrets — and it was hiding in plain sight, just beneath the skin. Using high-resolution infrared imaging, researchers have ...

In the frigid landscape of Siberia, frozen tombs held ice mummies with newly analyzed tattoos. Roman Purtov via Unsplash Nearly a century ago in the frigid Altai Mountains of southern Siberia, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than 5,000 years, humans have adorned themselves with tattoos. In a new study, researchers used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on mummies from ...

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 ...

Date: Fourth to Third centuries B.C. Some of the most spectacular tattoos in the ancient world have been found adorning Iron Age mummies unearthed in the Altay Mountains of Siberia. There, a series of ...

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. Some time prior to 1930, the ...

Nearly a century ago in the frigid Altai Mountains of southern Siberia, explorers discovered frozen tombs. They were described as “mounded monuments” with underground chambers “lined with log ...