More than 100 years after her death, Rosalia Lombardo continues to captivate the world. Preserved inside a glass coffin in the Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, the two-year-old girl looks so ...

One incredibly well-preserved 5,600-year-old mummy is now upending much of what we thought we knew about Ancient Egyptian embalming. A study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science shows ...

Unknown artist, “Mesu Smelling a Lotus” (c. 1525–1504 BCE), New Kingdom, Thebes, Egypt (image via Metropolitan Museum of Art) What did ancient mummies smell like? What types of scents, perfumes, and ...

This story was produced in collaboration with CivicStory as part of the New Jersey Sustainability Reporting project. Along a winding, bright green moss trail in Steelmantown Cemetery is a small ...

From the moment Tyrone Timms pulled up outside his father’s Arizona home on Veterans Day 2019, he knew something was wrong. John Gause, a Vietnam War veteran, hadn’t picked up the phone. The blinds ...

A MUMMIFICATION expert from Yorkshire has helped to unwrap new secrets revealing which natural ingredients were used - some imported from far away places. Animal fat, cedar oil, juniper resin, plant ...

Scholars have concluded that King Tutankhamun was not murdered, after a lengthy investigation that seemed to refute popular theory. The death of King Tut has been the subject of great debate and major ...

A new analysis of an ancient Egyptian mummy suggests that sophisticated techniques for preserving the dead may be 1,000 years older than previously believed. The discovery centers on the tomb of a ...

Discovery of nobleman Khuwy shows that Egyptians were using advanced embalming methods 1,000 years before assumed date The ancient Egyptians were carrying out sophisticated mummifications of their ...

As bodies of COVID-19 victims have piled up this year in Los Angeles County amid the pandemic, local air quality regulators have repeatedly lifted cremation limits to allow hospitals, funeral homes ...