Archaeologists had previously uncovered Greek papyri in mummies, but this discovery marks the first time a literary text has ...

It might have been mummy’s favorite bedtime story. Archaeologists found part of Homer’s “The Iliad” stuffed inside a ...

Archaeologists in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, have uncovered a 1,600-year-old mummy containing a papyrus fragment from Homer’s Iliad, ...

The Iron Island Museum in Buffalo is small in size but massive in its ability to make grown adults question everything they ...

While embalming techniques are as lovingly crafted as in the original video game, there’s not enough light to balance out the darkness when things take a demonic turn This horror movie, based on Brian ...

Relatives of a man who died of heart problems are suing a Montebello mortuary, saying they were “horrified” that the embalming was done so poorly that liquid was oozing from the decedent’s face during ...

Sen. Rick Williams, a Milledgeville Republican, presents SB 239, which would remove the requirement that funeral directors be licensed in embalming in order to work in Georgia, on Feb. 5, 2026, in ...

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 ...

An Egyptian mummy from 2300 BC. Credit: Justin Chay / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The distinctive scent surrounding an ancient Egyptian mummy is offering new insight into burial practices that date back thousands ...

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