A few years ago, a team of European researchers discovered nanoparticles from tattoo pigments seem to be able to travel from a tattoo site into a body’s lymph nodes. A new follow-up study has now ...

People have been getting tattoos for a really, really long time. An ancient tattoo needle unearthed in Utah is about 2,000 years old, making it the oldest tattoo needle ever found by at least 1,000 ...

There are a lot of reasons why you may be hesitant to get your first tattoo, and oftentimes first tattoo tips on the Internet leave something to be desired. Perhaps your fears stem from the cost ...

An artifact found in Utah’s Bears Ears region is adding about a thousand years to what science believed about the history of tattooing among western North America’s indigenous people. A paper ...

A 2,000-year-old tattooing tool has been discovered in Utah—the oldest artifact of its kind found in the the Western U.S., predating the second oldest by a millennium. The pen-sized tattooing tool was ...