“I don’t know if you’ve seen that mummy,” former President Bill Clinton once tastelessly joked about a 500-year-old mummified Peruvian girl nicknamed Juanita. “But you know, if I were a single man, I ...
The mummy recently caught the attention of a team of researchers due to the surprising presence of tattoos on her face. In a study published in the May-June issue of the Journal of Cultural Heritage, ...
New imaging technology has allowed scientists to decipher the tattoos of an Iron Age mummy—and study them like never before. 3D model of the tattooed ice mummy who belonged to the nomadic group known ...