If you have ever stood close to an ancient Egyptian mummy, you may remember a distinctive, lingering odor. For a long time, ...

A Mississippi family thought they were preparing to say goodbye to a loved one. Instead, they were called in the middle of the night with words they never expected to hear: he was still alive. Walter ...

Based on the hit video game of the same name, The Mortuary Assistant opens in theaters nationwide on Friday, 2/13, and will ...

A new study shows how ancient Egyptian mummy scent contains chemical clues that uncover embalming methods used thousands of ...

The headline takeaway is scale and sensitivity: the team reported identifying 81 distinct VOCs. Those compounds clustered into four main ingredient groups linked to ancient embalming practice - fats ...

As previously reported, Egyptian embalming is thought to have begun in the Predynastic Period or earlier, when people noticed that the arid desert heat tended to dry and preserve bodies buried in the ...

To celebrate the first Friday the 13th of 2026, here is a list of 25 old-school favorites, influential giants and hidden gems ...

Clip from The Mortuary Assistant, the big-screen adaptation of the popular video game, in theaters this Friday, February 13th.

In honor of some lesser-known marvels of the female body, we bring you a list of five strange capacities and capabilities of the feminine form.

It was one of the largest discoveries of decaying bodies at a funeral home in the U.S.

A handful of public companies and private equity-backed firms are targeting funeral homes as the silver tsunami approaches.

Hundreds of families learned from officials that the ashes they ceremonially spread or kept close weren’t actually their ...