For generations, tattoos have served as both a rite of passage and a record of service for members of the military.

We'll be able to buy tattoo sleeve arm covers based on Yakuza and Like a Dragon characters in about a month.

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CORRECTION: This story was updated on March 14, 2013, to indicate that the goblet pictured is pre-Columbian, not Aztec. Humans seem to have a predilection for fake quartz-crystal Aztec skulls ...

A young man in China whose entire face is tattooed with a skull design leading to employment problems, has decided to undergo the painful process of tattoo removal.

A team of scientists from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, has created 3D reconstructions of several Aztec skull whistles from the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, Germany. In research ...

Reconstructed skull whistles provide terrifying look into Aztec rituals.

Another theory is that the skull-like shape is an allusion to Mictlantecuhtli , the Aztec god of the underworld, and that the Death Flute may have been used in religious practices or ceremonies.

Aztec “skull whistles” found in ancient gravesites were designed to produce shrieking sounds and instil “otherworldly” fear even in modern people, scientists say.

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