Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Embalming, once thought to be exclusive to ancient Egypt or South America, has now been identified in Europe. Recent study of the ...

Burying the bodies of our loved ones has long been restricted primarily to embalming and cremation in the U.S. However, both of those involve turning your body into an environmental disaster. Now, as ...

A mummy buried in Southern Egypt more than 5,000 years ago has revealed its grisly secrets, shedding new light on prehistoric embalming practices. Researchers from the Universities of York, Oxford and ...

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They called him Lionheart — a name that has become the epitome of courage in battle. More than eight centuries after the death of King Richard I of England, forensic scientists have now revealed the ...

With the government declaring formaldehyde a carcinogen, these might be boom times for alternative embalming fluids — if it weren’t for the so-called everlasting effect funeral directors stake their ...

For thousands of years, ancient Egyptians carefully mummified the bodies of their dead in readiness for the afterlife. But the origins of the ritual are still shrouded in mystery. A team of chemists ...

On the hierarchy of taboo topics, death and funerarypractices occupy a prominent position. Typically, the manner in which we carefor the deceased is discussed only at the time of death and is kept ...

After 18-year-old Renard Matthews of New Orleans was tragically shot and killed in a robbery while walking his dog, his family decided to give Matthews a unique send-off. The family chose for Matthews ...

A mummy buried in Southern Egypt more than 5,000 years ago has revealed its grisly secrets, shedding new light on prehistoric embalming practices. Researchers from the Universities of York, Oxford and ...