David W. Jones<p>So maybe tattoing ranks up there with the oldest of technologies...</p><p>Modern tattooers meet their ancient match with the ice mummies of Siberia</p><p><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-07-modern-tattooers-ancient-ice-mummies.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-07-modern-t</span><span class="invisible">attooers-ancient-ice-mummies.html</span></a></p><p>> 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 light on individual craftsmanship in prehistoric Siberian tattooing for the first time.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tattoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tattoo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antiquity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antiquity</span></a></p>