Volunteers have been joining the effort to keep emergency medical operations going for civilians and wounded fighters in ...

Police said that the deceased has a tattoo of the name Prakash on his shoulder, adding that the body was found in a decomposed state, and hence there were no other identification marks. “ ...

1, 2021, the revolution that began with peaceful demonstrations has escalated into a full-blown armed struggle, now about to end its fourth year. The landscape of Myanmar’s conflict has dramatically ...

The armed wing of the long-established, powerful ethnic national organisation Karen National Union (KNU) has been battling a breakaway group near the city of Dawei in Myanmar’s southernmost region ...

A new study sheds light on tattoo designs found on more than 100 mummies from Chancay culture, a group that lived on the Peruvian coast between roughly 900 and 1500 C.E. Julia Binswanger Daily ...

Landslides in the jade mining area of Hpakant in Myanmar have been a regular theme of this blog over the years. This is a mining area on an epic scale, but it is also a true wild west, with poor ...

The intricate details of tattoos inscribed on the skin of South American mummies are now revealed in all their breathtaking glory. With a technique used to study dinosaur fossils, a team of scientists ...

Researchers have unveiled long "hidden" and finely detailed tattoo designs on the skin of ancient mummies from Peru, a study reports. Tattoos were a prevalent art form in pre-Hispanic South ...

Scam factories threaded along the Myanmar border with Thailand have been thrust back under the spotlight after the rescue of a Chinese actor who says he was duped by a fake casting call into ...

Collin J. Meisel receives funding from the U.S. government, but the results and views expressed here are his own and do not represent the views of the USG. With major conflicts in Africa, the ...

With a tool often used in the study of dinosaur fossils, scientists uncovered new details in ornate tattoos on the skin of members of the Chancay culture of Peru. By Becky Ferreira A culture ...

The intricate details of tattoos inked more than 1200 years ago have been made visible by scanning South American mummies with lasers. The mummies, belonging to a pre-Hispanic people known as the ...