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 ...

A 2,000-year-old spiky object recently rediscovered in museum storage is the oldest known tattoo-making tool from western North America, a new study finds. The pen-size tool has two needles made from ...

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 ...

A 2,000-year-old wooden implement with black-tipped cactus spines is now the oldest example of a tattoo tool in western North America, a discovery that’s shedding important new light on this ancient ...

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 ...

Archaeologists from universities in the United States and Denmark found, deep within the Actun Uayazba Kab cave in Belize, two small stone tools dated between 250 and 900 AD that could be the first ...

Archaeologists have recently discovered the oldest tattooing artefact which is around 2,000 years old. With a handle of skunkbush and a cactus-spine end, the tool was made around 2,000 years ago by ...

Madison is a freelance science reporter and full-time fact-checker based in the wild Rocky Mountains of western Montana. Madison is a freelance science reporter and full-time fact-checker based in the ...

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 ...