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 ...

It’s a simple object about the size of a modern pen: two parallel cactus spines, stained black at the tips and lashed with split yucca leaves to an 89mm (3.5-inch) handle of skunkbrush sumac. But its ...

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 ...

Religious tradition in some cultures and banned in others, tattoos have been a means of expression for thousands of years. Now, an archaeological study has discovered what appears to be the oldest ...

Scientists have developed a way to get a permanent tattoo without going under the needle and suffering through hours of pain. Georgia Tech / SWNS Those with phobias of needles can now get tattoos ...

A 2,000-year-old spiky object recently rediscovered in museum storage is the oldest known tattoo-making tool from western North America, a new study finds. The pen-size tool has two needles made from ...