If you have ever stood close to an ancient Egyptian mummy, you may remember a distinctive, lingering odor. For a long time, ...

The headline takeaway is scale and sensitivity: the team reported identifying 81 distinct VOCs. Those compounds clustered into four main ingredient groups linked to ancient embalming practice - fats ...

A new study shows how ancient Egyptian mummy scent contains chemical clues that uncover embalming methods used thousands of ...

As previously reported, Egyptian embalming is thought to have begun in the Predynastic Period or earlier, when people noticed that the arid desert heat tended to dry and preserve bodies buried in the ...

A Mississippi family thought they were preparing to say goodbye to a loved one. Instead, they were called in the middle of the night with words they never expected to hear: he was still alive. Walter ...

The historic cemetery is running out of space for new graves, and plans to offer a more sustainable alternative to cremation ...

Hundreds of families learned from officials that the ashes they ceremonially spread or kept close weren’t actually their ...

Derrick Johnson buried his mother’s ashes beneath a golden dewdrop tree with purple blossoms at his home on Maui’s Haleakala ...

In honor of some lesser-known marvels of the female body, we bring you a list of five strange capacities and capabilities of the feminine form.

Derrick Johnson buried his mother’s ashes in 2023 alongside his home on Maui, fulfilling her wish of a final resting place ...

I deserve every word you have said and every day that I will sit in prison,” Jon Hallford said in court on Friday. Investigators found nearly 200 decomposing bodies stored improperly.