Researchers have examined a mummy from a small Austrian village and found a mix of unusual materials has been used to ...

The long-dead vicar, who passed away in 1746, has an unusual embalming method to thank for his extraordinary durability. But ...

The mummies of Vác remain relatively unknown even though there are hundreds of them in the crypt of the town's Roman Catholic ...

What if you could preserve your loved ones forever, suspended in a crystal-clear glass cube? That's what Russian inventor ...

For centuries, many cultures around the world embalmed their dead, often for religious reasons. Accordingly, embalming ...

The 18th-century mummy of Franz Xaver Sidler, dubbed the "Air-Dried Chaplain," was preserved using a unique embalming ...

Scientists try to unravel the case of 1,300 mysteriously preserved human brains What does a mummy smell like? Woodsy and sweet, with a 'note of pistachio' Nelson says some ancient Egyptian and ...

A NEARLY 300-year-old mummy has been found "unusually well-preserved" after undergoing a bizarre embalming method. With its skin still remarkably intact, the 18th-century corpse was found with ...

"Girl your tattoos are beautiful and match you so well." The ink-redible ancient history of body art The mummy, known as Gebelein Man A, pushes back evidence of figurative tattoos by 1,000 years.

Why is air travel so much less enjoyable these days? When I was a child, I thought it was all very exciting. In fact, I used to love going to airports, just to watch the planes. That really was a ...