The 5,300-year-old mummy of Ötzi the Iceman was found 30 years ago with 61 tattoos on it....
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Why tattoos are often seen to be ‘trashy,’ a view likely influenced by colonialism. But they go...
There are several ways to grow your tattoo business and one of them is making your service...
The 1950s were a popular time for boxing as a number of extraordinary fighters came on the...
An anthropologist works in American Samoa, taking advantage of the island’s longstanding tattoo culture to tease out...
Tattoo patterns and art on the face and body differed from one Polynesian island group to the...
People in Arctic and Northwest Coast communities are uncovering the therapeutic history of tattoos. By Joshua Rapp...
People have long made their skin into canvases that convey rich personal, spiritual, or ritual meanings in...
While contemporary laser removal techniques are only around forty years old, efforts to erase or rewrite tattoos...
The tools, called “bone combs,” resemble hair combs with their grooved edges. By Amy Held Tattooing goes...
Historians have often neglected tattoos as a source, as artifacts that shed light upon society. In Christopher...