Oscar Hult- Embalming at Washington County Museum October 20.jpg.jpeg Historian Oscar Hult will portray a mid-nineteenth century embalmer as he describes the embalming techniques used during the time ...

At Harvard Museum of Natural History's Rat Embalming Workshop, participants embalm a rat, which they then take home with them.By Ben Y. Cammarata It’s strange walking through the halls of the Harvard ...

A new exhibition at Denmark’s Moesgaard Museum is promising to transport visitors back 3,500 years through the power of smell. “Ancient Egypt–Obsessed with Life” does not feature sculptural works or ...

In the Egyptian Museum since the 1900s, the mummy affectionately known as Fred has provided scientists with the recipe used for ancient embalming. It also shows bodies were embalmed 1,500 years ...

In the Egyptian Museum since the 1900s, the mummy affectionately known as Fred has provided scientists with the recipe used for ancient embalming. It also shows bodies were embalmed 1,500 years ...

For many people, mummies and mummification evoke a sense of the macabre — conjuring images of a grotesque, linen-wrapped monstrosity shambling through an ancient temple. Indeed, for many decades ...

The mummy lays delicately curled in the fetal position. Though it now rests in a museum in Turin, Italy, it assumed its vulnerable pose thousands of years ago in Egypt, baked in the searing sands near ...