From ethnographic accounts and ancient Mayan imagery, we know that the Maya engaged in various forms of body modification, ...

Archaeologists have, for the first time, identified what appear to be tools used by the ancient Maya for tattooing, according ...

but Mayan tattooing tools had never been found. James Stemp at Keene State College in New Hampshire and his team analysed two fragments of stone discovered in the late 1990s in a cave in Belize.

Archaeologists from universities in the United States and Denmark found, deep within the Actun Uayazba Kab cave in Belize, ...