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MANILA, Philippines — His work begins when someone dies. The dead is brought to him and laid on a steel table in a fluorescent-lit, refrigerator-cold room reeking of formalin, where he prepares the ...

Egyptian mummification has been a source of fascination for historians, archaeologists and scientists alike for centuries. A recent study conducted by German and Egyptian researchers has finally ...

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A pathologist told an inquest in Tullamore today that he could identify no clear cause of the death of an Offaly farmer because his examination was limited by previous embalming of the body. The ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The history of embalming in America is deeply rooted in both necessity and cultural ...

New facility provides efficient services for body preservation and repatriation Major General Abdullah Mubarak bin Amer, Commander-in-Chief of Sharjah Police, inaugurating the new embalming centre.

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 ...

The pope's physician tried a method that didn't take internal preservation into account Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who has spent 20 years as a reporter for PEOPLE. She covers ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

The body of the 88-year-old will be on display for three days in Saint Peter's Basilica Chief Rabbi of Rome Riccardo Di Segni as he pay his respect to late Pope Francis in the Chapel of Santa Marta in ...