The best tattoo artists take ink, a machine and a willing client and bend these elements into an identity akin to a luxury good ...

Sometimes there is a whole story behind a small tattoo — love, loss or a new chapter of life. We put together tattoos, many of which were made not for fashion or aesthetics, but for a much more ...

Many professional wrestlers have filled their bodies with tattoos. One such star is the Second City Saint, CM Punk. Recently, Punk revealed what one of his most important pieces is. Punk was the ...

Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of understanding our ancestors. Archaeologist Aaron Deter-Wolf, pictured in his office ...

With a tool often used in the study of dinosaur fossils, scientists uncovered new details in ornate tattoos on the skin of members of the Chancay culture of Peru. By Becky Ferreira A culture ...

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