New imaging technology has allowed scientists to decipher the tattoos of an Iron Age mummy—and study them like never before.

Among the most fascinating mummies discovered outside of Egypt is a tattooed ice mummy found at Ukok Plateau near the border of China and Russia, the latter being one of the largest countries in ...

The mummies were originally found in “frozen tombs” in the 1940s, researchers said.

The ice mummy was found in 1991 on an Alpine glacier between Austria and Italy, where he met a violent end in the Neolithic.

Using near-infrared imaging, researchers uncovered extraordinary hand-poked designs of tigers, griffins and tiny roosters on the body of a 2300-year-old Siberian mummy.