Archaeologists at Saqqara have finally identified the many embalming ingredients used to mummify the dead in ancient Egypt. They also deciphered how those different ingredients — many of which came ...

Men who have jobs where they’re exposed to high levels of the chemical formaldehyde are at much greater risk of dying from ALS—amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease and ...

It wasn’t exactly a fate worse than death, but Pablo Dayao had always felt that he was meant to do a job most people avoid, even abhor. Call it destiny, he said, of his job as licensed embalmer at the ...

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 ...

Egyptologists have recently translated the oldest-known mummification manual. Translating it required solving a literal puzzle; the medical text that includes the manual is currently in pieces, with ...

She treats her eight-hour job both as a science and an art—but one with an unforgiving “deadline.” On a typical workday, May Cardenas, a 28-year-old biology graduate of the University of the ...

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