Ancient civilizations approached passing differently. While today’s embalmers use just enough preservative for a dignified farewell, the Egyptians went all in. For them, passing to the afterlife ...

The Corpse Who Came to Dinner explores the strange case of Jean Stevens, the Pennsylvania widow who exhumed and kept the embalmed bodies of her husband and twin sister in her home.

A woman who lived over 2,000 years ago in Siberia is giving us a fascinating look into the past, thanks to tattoos preserved ...

The ancient Egyptians built temples that lasted thousands of years, and one of them happens to be in San Jose. Well, ...

In the heart of Old Cairo, off the Mamluk water reservoir of Beir Om El-Sultan, Egyptian alabaster craftsmen cut and shape ...

A funerary portrait from Roman Egypt, featuring a strikingly modern-looking male subject with piercing hazel eyes and graying ...

La Doncella, the oldest of three Inca child mummies found near Llullaillaco around CE 1500. Credit: grooverpedro / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 Archaeologists have uncovered the first clear case of ...

Linen used to wrap the dead in Egypt more than 6,000 years ago (above) was permeated with a mixture of substances very similar to that used when the art of mummification was at its height 3,000 years ...

Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell ‘woody,’ ‘spicy’ and ‘sweet’, finds a new study led by researchers from University College London and the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, revealing new ...

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Proxy voting was designed to empower investors by giving them a voice in decisions at the companies they own. Today’s proxy process doesn’t live up to that vision. Instead, it has weakened investor ...

Mummification requires formalin, too, but after chemical injection the carcass is left to dry out completely. For wet specimens, he uses a mixture of isopropyl alcohol and water to draw out the ...