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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A West Loop auction house has canceled the sale of tools purportedly used to embalm Elvis Presley, after a Memphis funeral home disputed a retired embalmer’s ownership of the items. Leslie Hindman ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) — The CEO of the medical training facility MedtoMarket is accused of providing human remains for unauthorized experimentation using embalming fluid, according to the Austin Police ...

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 ...