Horror fans could have the chance to enjoy the ultimate spooky holiday – in an abandoned morgue. The derelict mortuary – complete with original embalming room – was snapped up at auction in 2023.

In a hidden corner of the new technical education building near the automotive lab sits a quiet space that resembles a waiting room that houses the workspaces of one of American River College’s lesser ...

A newly translated papyrus from ancient Egypt dating back 3,500 years provides a rare insight into Egyptian embalming techniques. The ancient medical text details a procedure never identified before ...

This drop-dead gorgeous Victorian home comes with a macabre pedigree. Ashley Berken and her wife were on the house hunt in October when they discovered a 145-year-old Victorian home within their ...

A family has found their forever home in the form of a former funeral home, with its embalming room and casket showroom still intact. Ashley Berken, 39, lives in Wisconsin with her wife, Beth, and ...

The final service in the old funeral parlor came in the winter of 2021-2022, when Ronald Taylor II, the last mortician to operate at 108 West North Avenue, provided cold storage for the bodies of ...

The mummy of the 'air-dried chaplain' in his coffin in the church crypt of St. Thomas am Blasenstein, Austria. Credit: Andreas Nerlich. Researchers have examined a mummy from a small Austrian village ...

For centuries, many cultures around the world embalmed their dead, often for religious reasons. Accordingly, embalming methods differ, but not all of them are studied equally well. In a first report ...

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The pope's physician tried a method that didn't take internal preservation into account Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who has spent 20 years as a reporter for PEOPLE. She covers ...