For centuries, many cultures around the world embalmed their dead, often for religious reasons. Accordingly, embalming methods differ, but not all of them are studied equally well. In a first report ...

Researchers found a centuries-old mummy from Austria exceptionally well preserved – likely the result of a never-before reported embalming method using wood chips, twigs, fabric, and zinc chloride The ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For centuries, many cultures around the world embalmed their dead, often for religious reasons. Accordingly, embalming methods differ, but not all of them ...

The 300-year-old mummified body of a vicar has been "exceptionally well preserved" - thanks to a never-before-seen embalming method. The mummy - known locally as "The Air-Dried Priest" - was embalmed ...

A monk in An Giang passed away 10 years ago, but his body has not decomposed, though it was not preserved by chemicals or embalming methods. Next to the head office of the O Lam commune People’s ...

President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15th, 1865, mere hours after John Wilkes Booth inflicted the mortal gunshot wound, but his body had to survive a 19-day train ride across the country before ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, Wanyue Zhao and her colleagues used volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to analyze the composition of scents given off by mummies ...