Researchers discovered that a 1746 Austrian mummy was embalmed with wood chips and zinc chloride, preserving internal tissues ...

The embalmers then removed the organs of the abdomen and chest ... travel through the Underworld to the Final Judgment and entrance to the Afterlife. To the Egyptian, all three were essential. After ...

One incredibly well-preserved 5,600-year-old mummy is now upending much of what we thought we knew about Ancient Egyptian embalming. A new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science ...

We typically associate mummies with ancient Egypt - or sometimes cheesy old horror movies. Now a newly described mummy from an unexpected place - Austria - details in the journal Frontiers in Medicine ...

An incredible example of this is the little-known case of a mummy located in the church crypt of St Thomas am Blasenstein, in ...

“There have been countless studies on Egyptian embalming, but our lack of knowledge on which substances are behind the different names and the lack of any practical descriptions have hindered ...

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.

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