One of the first applications of laser-stimulated fluorescence in anthropology, the tattoos contain lines only 0.1 millimeter ...

Intricate patterns in the tattoos of 1,200-year-old mummies from Peru were revealed using a new laser-based technique. But ...

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The human remains are associated with the pre-Hispanic Chancay culture. Credit A mummified forearm (left) under laser-stimulated fluorescence, revealing hidden details of tattoo designs ...

A team of researchers in Peru looked at tattoos on more than 100 mummified bodies from the Chancay culture, which inhabited the region from 900 to 1533. Michael Pittman, a paleobiologist at the ...

With a tool often used in the study of dinosaur fossils, scientists uncovered new details in ornate tattoos on the skin of members of the Chancay culture of Peru. By Becky Ferreira A culture ...

The mummies, belonging to a pre-Hispanic people known as the Chancay, were found in 1981 at the Cerro Colorado cemetery in the Huaura valley of Peru. While it was clear to the naked eye that many ...

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