For centuries, the scent of ancient mummies has fascinated visitors and researchers alike. Now scientists are capturing ...

As previously reported, Egyptian embalming is thought to have begun in the Predynastic Period or earlier, when people noticed that the arid desert heat tended to dry and preserve bodies buried in the ...

A newly translated papyrus from ancient Egypt dating back 3,500 years provides a rare insight into Egyptian embalming techniques. The ancient medical text details a procedure never identified before ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The history of embalming in America is deeply rooted in both necessity and cultural ...

New facility provides efficient services for body preservation and repatriation Major General Abdullah Mubarak bin Amer, Commander-in-Chief of Sharjah Police, inaugurating the new embalming centre.

The pope's physician tried a method that didn't take internal preservation into account Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who has contributed to PEOPLE for over 20 years. She ...

Meet the 34-year old embalmer who was inspired by her grandfather's work to help grieving families in Leeds. Charlotte Ince was working in a warehouse before she took up work as an embalmer because ...

Most people spend their lives avoiding thoughts of death. For Charlotte Ince, it’s her life’s work – and her greatest act of care. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you can ...

ROME — Ahead of his lying-in-state, Pope Francis’s body was made ready to withstand Rome’s warm spring weather with a temporary embalming and a touch of make-up, an expert told AFP. The body of the 88 ...