Radiocarbon dating placed the mummies between 1222 and 1282 CE ... early tattoo making even from tattoos that are over 1,000 years old,” said Michael Pittman, an archaeologist at the Chinese ...

These tattoos, etched over 1,000 years ago, offered an intimate ... purposes — similar to the tattoos of Ötzi, the 5,300-year-old European “Iceman,” which researchers believe were used ...

In the late 1980's, perfectly preserved 3000-year-old mummies began appearing in a remote Chinese desert. They had long reddish-blond hair, European features and didn't appear to be the ancestors ...

which lasted from 305 B.C.E to 30 B.C.E., making this mummy around 2,300 years old. According to the Egypt Museum, the X-ray scan also revealed an inscription of the man’s name, though it’s hard to ...