Why Does This Mummy Have So Many Tattoos? Otzi, a 5,000-year-old mummy, has 61 tattoos arranged in 19 groups across his body.

A pre-Hispanic mummy dating back 1,000 years was recently found by utility workers in Lima, Peru, with archaeologists linking it to the Chancay culture that predated the Inca Empire.

An international team of archaeologists has used high-resolution digital imaging techniques to examine tattoos on a more than 2,000-year-old ice mummy from the Pazyryk culture of Siberia, shedding ...

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely 20 inches from the surface.

Researchers have claimed the mummies retain preserved tissue ... rendered adaptive in certain environments and persist over time,' Michels said in his documentary. 'So it could be just that, which ...

Object Details Author Aufderheide, Arthur C Contents History of mummy studies -- The purpose of anthropogenic mummification -- Mechanisms of mummification -- The geography of mummies: Mummies from ...