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

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From ancient Hindu funeral customs to modern eco-friendly burials, people are rethinking what it means to say goodbye. Whether guided by sacred texts like the Garuda Purana or by environmental values, ...

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PROF. ELLIOT SMITH has applied to the study of mummification the accurate and thorough methods of observation which have won for him a foremost place among the younger generation of anatomists, the ...

Kristoffer Hughes has spent 32 years working with the dead. And he thinks we've been doing it all wrong. Treated as a “problem to be solved”, bodies are embalmed with formaldehyde to preserve their ...

FUNERAL HOMES AND FUNERAL PRACTICES. Pre-canal era. In late May of 1797, David Eldridge, a drover sent out on the Connecticut Land Co.'s second survey, drowned while trying to cross the Grand River.