which expands the degree of artistic development found in South America at this time,” they write. Scientists hope the new technique could lead to improved analysis of tattoos on mummies from ...
While the ancient Egyptians may be the best-known mummy makers, they were far from the first. A very sophisticated fishing tribe called the Chinchoros, who lived on the north coast of what is now ...
And in December 2015 they were confirmed to be the world's oldest - beating markings on an unidentified South American Chinchorro mummy. Experts had thought the South American mummy with a ...
The intricate details of tattoos inked more than 1200 years ago have been made visible by scanning South American mummies with lasers. The mummies, belonging to a pre-Hispanic people known as the ...