Following the death of Pope Francis today at the age of 88, the Pontiff's body will now need to be embalmed to prevent the ...

The so-called "screaming woman" was buried around 3,500 years ago during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt, and ...

Another mysterious Egyptian mummy has kept its secrets for a long time, but now, technology is helping us take a look inside.

imported embalming material. The mummy's screaming facial expression in this study could be read as a cadaveric spasm, implying that the woman died screaming from agony or pain." A cadaveric spasm ...

(The other mummy went to the George West Museum in Round ... an ancient practice of desiccation far different from modern embalming—were carried out by a flourishing professional trade and ...

As it turns out, the hanging mummy was actually a real corpse ... Seeing a money-making opportunity, the undertaker embalmed him and allowed visitors to view the preserved corpse if they ...

Elmer’s body was transported to the Joseph Johnson Funeral Home for an autopsy, where he was embalmed with so much ... (He was not the only mummy exhibited in this way, but he is the only ...

The best-known mummies, human and animal, are probably those that underwent elaborate embalming and burial procedures in ancient Egypt. Indeed, for most people, the word "mummy" is pretty much ...

Then, learn about the 5,600-year-old mummy that revealed the oldest Egyptian embalming recipe ever found. A former staff writer for All That’s Interesting, Marco Margaritoff holds dual Bachelor's ...