Researchers rediscovered four tattooing tools from Tongatapu island in Tonga years after they were thought to be lost. Radiocarbondating revealed that the tools are actually 2,700 years old, making ...

In the summer of 2017, Washington State University Ph.D. candidate Andrew Gillreath-Brown inventoried 64 museum boxes full of dusty artifacts. He and a peer were charged with reorganizing the Turkey ...

The oldest tattooing tool in western North America, a 2,000-year-old pair of cactus needles with dye-stained tips, has been discovered in Utah. The tool was used for applying tattoos, shedding light ...

While taking an inventory of stored artifacts excavated in Utah in 1972, archaeologist Andrew Gillreath-Brown thought he recognized one: a tattooing tool. That previously overlooked find dates to ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — Scientists from Washington State University have discovered the oldest known tattooing tool in western North America. The tool, with a handle of skunkbush and a cactus-spine point, ...

If you were to walk into a tattoo parlor today, you'd probably find your artist sporting a collection of different tattoo machines. Most machines are powered by an electric motor, and some by air ...

Tattooing goes back millennia and spans cultures, as evidenced by mummified remains, yet many details of the body modification's origins have been shrouded in mystery. Now an ancient bone tattoo kit ...

Tattooing is not just any art. It requires absolute precision, because its strokes are indelible, and it requires maximum hygiene and sanitary care. Therefore, every tattoo artist must know his ...

Feb. 28 (UPI) --Archaeologists have identified the oldest tattoo tool in western North America. The ancient artifact, which had been sitting in storage for 40 years, was found by Andrew ...