{"id":203701,"date":"2025-01-14T03:13:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T09:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/lasers-help-archaeologists-study-ancient-tattoos-on-peruvian-mummies"},"modified":"2025-01-14T03:13:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T09:13:16","slug":"lasers-help-archaeologists-study-ancient-tattoos-on-peruvian-mummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/lasers-help-archaeologists-study-ancient-tattoos-on-peruvian-mummies","title":{"rendered":"Lasers help archaeologists study ancient tattoos on Peruvian mummies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lasers-help-archaeologists-study-ancient-tattoos-on-peruvian-mummies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more than 5,000 years, humans have adorned themselves with tattoos.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study, researchers used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/tattoos\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tattoos<\/a> on mummies from Peru.<\/p>\n<p>The preserved skin of the mummies and the black tattoo ink used show a stark contrast\u2014revealing fine details in tattoos dating to around 1,250 A.D. that aren\u2019t visible to the naked eye, said study co-author Michael Pittman, an archaeologist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than 5,000 years, humans have adorned themselves with tattoos. In a new study, researchers used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on mummies from Peru. The preserved skin of the mummies and the black tattoo ink used show a stark contrast\u2014revealing fine details in tattoos dating to around 1,250 A.D. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}