President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15th, 1865, mere hours after John Wilkes Booth inflicted the mortal gunshot wound, but his body had to survive a 19-day train ride across the country before ...

OK, so he’s had more than his fair share of work. Still, at 145 years old, Vladimir Lenin has never looked better. Russian embalmers, who have carefully cared for the revolutionary leader’s corpse ...

In light of Pope Francis’ death on April 21, Catholic authorities are preparing the much-anticipated process to decide upon his successor. However, many people are wondering about a more burning ...

An archaeological restoration technician works on an ancient Egyptian mummy at a lab at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, Egypt, March 17, 2014. Reuters A modern corpse is getting the ancient ...

ZIMBABWEAN food outlets are reportedly selling Brazilian chicken imports which have been embalmed with chemicals normally used to preserve corpses, it has been learnt. Embalming chemicals are a ...

Tests on a prehistoric mummy reveal that ancient Egyptian embalming methods were in use 1,500 years earlier than previously thought. The analysis was carried out on the 'Turin Mummy', which dates to ...

A Fresno couple is suing the Clovis Funeral Chapel for allegedly mishandling their son’s embalming, causing the body to give off a foul odor during the funeral service. The odor was so pungent that ...