Once regarded as a taboo or a symbol of rebellion, tattoos in Nepal have transformed into expressions of identity, art, ...

Body modifications and piercings have been a part of human culture for millennia, serving as rites of passage, symbols of status, or expressions of identity. Piercings hold a special place, with roots ...

Tattooing.piercing.anorexia.self-cutting.plastic surgery.body-building.the use of life extension technologies–these are all forms of body modification that have become increasingly prevalent in ...

Researchers have shed fascinating new light on the unusual practice of permanent body modification during the Viking Age, which in some cases, may have been practiced as a "rite of initiation". It was ...

An artistic representation of the Gotlant burial of a Viking-era woman with a modified skull Current Swedish Archaeology / Mirosław Kuźma / Matthias Toplak Examples of artificially altered bones ...