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Following Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s assassination, Iran preserved his body for 125 days before the state funeral. From ...

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Through many years, the process of mummification in Ancient Egypt remained enigmatic. However, a surprising archaeological ...

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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” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery. While other ...

In the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus, archaeologists recently discovered a 1,600-year-old tomb with several mummies inside. Some of them were decorated with gold leaf or geometric ...

Relatives of a man who died of heart problems are suing a Montebello mortuary, saying they were “horrified” that the embalming was done so poorly that liquid was oozing from the decedent’s face during ...

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