Scientists used advanced laser scans to study 1,200-year-old tattoos on mummified individuals from the pre-Columbian Chancay culture, which developed along coastal Peru between 900AD and 1533AD.
Tattoos were a prevalent art form in pre-Hispanic South America, as attested by the discovery ... Chancay culture of what is now coastal Peru. A mummified forearm (left) under laser-stimulated ...