Science of how Pope Francis will be embalmed: Step-by-step The embalming begins with sanitisation, washing the body with disinfectants to eliminate bacteria. Rigor mortis is softened by massaging ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- A New Orleans woman's funeral is going viral, as another example of "extreme embalming." Miriam Burbank, 53, was posed at a table with a glass of Busch beer, a menthol cigarette ...

The year-long excavation also uncovered two new tombs that are significantly older than the embalming workshops and date back 4,400 and 3,400 years, to the fifth and 18th pharaonic dynasties, ...

The well-preserved Austrian mummy is the corpse of a local parish vicar, Franz Xaver Sidler von Rosenegg, who died in 1746. It was found in the church crypt of St Thomas am Blasenstein. The embalming ...

Embalming According to the IFSA and other organizations, embalming spread due to the need for the long-term preservation of bodies for transportation during the U.S. Civil War.

In Asia, some people are superstitious and think of embalming as an undesirable or “dirty” job and discriminate against it. Many people deem it to be an unattractive career, and embalmers are ...

The embalming materials of Ipi, vizier and overseer of Thebes and member of the elite during the reign of King Amenemhat I in the early 12th Dynasty, have been rediscovered in his tomb at Deir Al ...