A 1,600-year-old mummy discovered in Egypt has revealed something archaeologists had never seen before: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad used during embalming. The papyrus was identified as part of the ...

From makeup and board games to stone pillows and toe socks, the everyday items of ancient Egyptians reveal they valued cleanliness, leisure, and piety.

There's growing interest in alternatives to traditional burials and in making the process more environmentally friendly in many countries. For many people, it's about the environmental impact of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's a growing interest in alternatives to traditional burials as well as making the process more environmentally friendly in ...

Nabataeans established a mysterious, ancient kingdom and had a reputation for great accomplishments with links to Greece and ...

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Gunther von Hagens, who invented plastination, a method of preserving bodies by replacing their natural fluids with polymers, ...