These Civil War innovations led to the professionalization of the entire American funeral industry. Before the war, ...

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 ...

Burying the bodies of our loved ones has long been restricted primarily to embalming and cremation in the U.S. However, both of those involve turning your body into an environmental disaster. Now, as ...

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They called him Lionheart — a name that has become the epitome of courage in battle. More than eight centuries after the death of King Richard I of England, forensic scientists have now revealed the ...

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 ...

Beyond the pyramids and sphinxes, ancient Egypt is perhaps best known for its mummies. Schoolchildren around the world learn the story of ancient pharaohs—their organs scooped out and their bodies ...

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 ...

After 18-year-old Renard Matthews of New Orleans was tragically shot and killed in a robbery while walking his dog, his family decided to give Matthews a unique send-off. The family chose for Matthews ...

A Senate bill headed to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s desk would close a loophole in current law that technically prohibits mortuary science students in Michigan from practicing embalming - a requirement ...

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 ...