Egyptian Women Had Lower Back Tattoos, May Have Been Powerful Symbol for Protection During Childbirth Lower back tattoos have ...

A new study has revealed what ancient Egyptian mummies smell like – and the results might surprise you. Researchers from UCL ...

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For the Egyptians, all three hypostases of the soul were essential. Ancient Egyptians practiced their famous mummification throughout their history. The first mummies from prehistoric times were ...

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Kaye et al., PNAS (2025) If tattoos are prone to fading within a single human lifetime, imagine the wear-and-tear on the tattoos of 1,200-year-old mummies. An international team of researchers has ...

Archaeologists discovered more than a dozen mummies older than 2,000 years with tongues made from golden amulets. Ancient Egyptians’ idea behind the golden tongues was that they would help the ...

For more than 5,000 years, humans have adorned themselves with tattoos, leaving a legacy of ink that spans millennia. Now, modern technology is peeling back the layers of history - literally - by ...

Mummies’ skin glows brightly when scanned by a laser, revealing the fine details of any tattoos on the preserved body part 1. Getting inked has been a tradition for more than 5,000 years, but ...

A new study sheds light on tattoo designs found on more than 100 mummies from Chancay culture, a group that lived on the Peruvian coast between roughly 900 and 1500 C.E. Julia Binswanger Daily ...