Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” ...

When complaints began pouring in about a smell coming from a Colorado funeral home in October 2023, nothing could have ...

Somebody — perhaps it was Lee Cronin himself, probably not — wanted us to know that his latest project, "Lee Cronin's The ...

His name in the title, the director isn't especially distinctive as a stylist, but his tale of child possession sometimes ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The widow and two children of a South Gate man allege that a Montebello funeral home brutally botched their loved ...

A funeral that was intended to be a loving memorial to a father from South Gate took a turn for the horrifying when family members approached the casket and found him in a grotesque and oozing state ...

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 ...

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