Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Embalming, once thought to be exclusive to ancient Egypt or South America, has now been identified in Europe. Recent study of the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Burying the bodies of our loved ones has long been restricted primarily ...

A mummy buried in Southern Egypt more than 5,000 years ago has revealed its grisly secrets, shedding new light on prehistoric embalming practices. Researchers from the Universities of York, Oxford and ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Beyond the pyramids and sphinxes, ancient Egypt is perhaps best known ...

With the government declaring formaldehyde a carcinogen, these might be boom times for alternative embalming fluids — if it weren’t for the so-called everlasting effect funeral directors stake their ...

For thousands of years, ancient Egyptians carefully mummified the bodies of their dead in readiness for the afterlife. But the origins of the ritual are still shrouded in mystery. A team of chemists ...

Emma Paolin, Ph.D. student at University of Ljubljana, setting up the devices sampling of the aromas. Credit: Abdelrazek Elnaggar Emma Paolin, Ph.D. student at University of Ljubljana, setting up the ...

On the hierarchy of taboo topics, death and funerarypractices occupy a prominent position. Typically, the manner in which we carefor the deceased is discussed only at the time of death and is kept ...

November 30, 2009 — Among people working in the funeral industry, long-term occupational exposure to formaldehyde was associated with a statistically significantly increased risk for mortality from ...

A mummy buried in Southern Egypt more than 5,000 years ago has revealed its grisly secrets, shedding new light on prehistoric embalming practices. Researchers from the Universities of York, Oxford and ...