For more than 5,000 years, humans have adorned themselves with tattoos. In a new study, researchers used lasers to uncover ...

High in the Andes mountains of Peru, the city of Cuzco once served as the center of Incan power. Cuzco, also spelled Cusco ...

Scientists used advanced laser scans to study 1,200-year-old tattoos on mummified individuals from the pre-Columbian Chancay culture, which developed along coastal Peru between 900AD and 1533AD.

Lasers are typically used to remove tattoos from the skin with mixed results. These tight beams of light can also reveal the ...

There's a lot that we don't know for sure about the Inca Empire, because we have conflicting accounts among Spanish ...

From the quipu to the conquistadors, writer Rob Rath talks about cool stories we couldn't quite squeeze into the series, as ...