President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15th, 1865, mere hours after John Wilkes Booth inflicted the mortal gunshot wound, but his body had to survive a 19-day train ride across the country before ...

A new study sheds light on chemicals used in the ancient Egyptian embalming process, and reveals intricate trade networks between Egypt and tropical Africa and Asia ...

The ancient Egyptians developed sophisticated embalming treatments far earlier and across a wider geographical area than had been previously known, forensic tests on a well-known prehistoric mummy ...

n a funeral company’s operating room, Kenichiro Hashizume faces a body bearing wounds from a traffic accident. After performing preservation work, he sews up the wounds and applies makeup. About three ...

Based on a manual recently discovered in a 3,500-year-old medical papyrus, an Egyptologist has been able to reconstruct the embalming process used to prepare ancient Egyptians for the afterlife. It is ...