As the Catholic Church convenes its highest authorities to replace the late Pope Francis, the preservation of his body remains an immediate concern. Pope Francis who died on Easter Monday aged 88, ...

The ancient Egyptians were prolific record keepers. For thousands of years, they jotted down everything from legal documents to literature on papyrus rolls and tablets of wood and stone. But there’s ...

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

Embalming, once thought to be exclusive to ancient Egypt or South America, has now been identified in Europe. Recent study of the crypts found at Château des Milandes in Castelnaud-la-Chapelle, ...

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Scientists found a mummy's abdomen filled with wood and fabric—but it's how they got in there that's strange. Reading time 2 minutes When you hear the word mummy, chances are you think of ancient ...

Deep inside a shaft in the cemetery of Abusir, near Cairo, a team of Egyptian and Czech Egyptologists has found a significant cache of equipment used more than 2,500 years ago to embalm mummies. The ...

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