How did Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's body remain intact for 125 days? Here's how modern embalming, cryogenic storage and preservation techniques reportedly made it possible.

The distinctive smell of ancient mummies is helping scientists decode the secrets of Egyptian mummification. By analyzing tiny traces of chemicals in the air around mummy samples, researchers ...

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New details are emerging in the death of Ethan Dietz, a basketball player from Conway who died after being injured while playing in a game for Connors State College in Oklahoma. According to a coroner ...

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Egyptian mummification has been a source of fascination for historians, archaeologists and scientists alike for centuries. A recent study conducted by German and Egyptian researchers has finally ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

A guide to the embalming process likely to be used for Pope Francis, based on historic and modern practices followed by the Vatican. File photo of Pope Francis Pope Francis, the first Latin American ...

Some 1.4 billion Catholics around the globe are in mourning following the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88. The influential leader's death from a stoke and subsequent irreversible heart failure ...

This term was meant to signify an embalmed corpse and eventually found its way into English, where by the 1600s the word was used for naturally preserved desiccated human bodies. As such the modern ...

When I tell people I worked as a funeral director and embalmer for 11 years, I'm met with two responses: disgusted fear and excited curiosity. The latter are teeming with questions and are delighted ...

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