M uch like a fresh manicure, a hand tattoo can spark joy every time you look down. Each artist we spoke with for this story ...

From delicate fine-line florals to intricate geometric patterns, hand tattoos are the perfect blend of edgy and elegant, ...

These tattoos can themselves be specially done to curve over the hand where the knots may coil around the fingers and across the knuckles. A mountain range tattoo on the hand may be a way of ...

One of the first applications of laser-stimulated fluorescence in anthropology, the tattoos contain lines only 0.1 millimeter ...

The intricate tattoos of animal forms and geometric shapes were revealed when researchers scanned the mummies with lasers.

Using a cutting-edge technique called laser-stimulated fluorescence (LSF), researchers uncovered details that had been ...