Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of ...

MILTON – Colorful images of snakes slithering from the eyes of a skull. A naked woman perched on a koi fish. A serpent flying with the wings of an eagle. A powerful pirate woman armed with a sword and ...

Sophomores as well as sailors get inked at Great Lakes Tattoo, but the city's traditional tattoo culture lives on.

The first person in the West who can be described as a professional tattoo artist was Martin Hildebrandt, a German émigré who ...

A museum in Lodi is hosting an exhibit until Aug. 7 to showcase the history of women and tattoos. People can visit the "Tattooed and Tenacious: Inked Women in California's History" exhibit being held ...

One of the most stubborn misconceptions about tattooing is that it was born in Polynesia and imported to the West by Captain Cook in 1768, then trickled down to the masses over the next century, ...

Sunlight illuminates Tattoo City as Aleph Kali raises the blinds on the shop’s large windows facing Lombard and Mason streets. Historical tattoo designs plaster the walls and surround a large Rock of ...

Quincey Reese Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025 5:01 a.m. | Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025 5:01 a.m. Greensburg tattoo shop owner Nick Christofano has inked himself into the industry history books. After 28 years in ...