From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery, we know that the Maya engaged in various forms of body modification, including piercing, body painting, scarification, and tattooing. However ...

It has long been assumed that the ancient Maya were inked up, with reports from Spanish conquistadors describing how communities like the Mopan Maya sported tattoos on their breasts and penises ...

Archaeologists have, for the first time, identified what appear to be tools used by the ancient Maya for tattooing, according to a report in Nature. The discovery includes a pair of chert points ...

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 ...

The ancient Maya adorned their bodies with paint (pictured; Mayan vessel depicting individual wearing black body paint) and tattoos. Stone fragments found at a ritual site in Belize are thought to ...

Scientists use laser technology to uncover more Mayan ruins 03:10. Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and ...

From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery, we know that the Maya engaged in various forms of body modification, including piercing, body painting, scarification, and tattooing. However ...