A teenager, buried in Italy hundreds of years ago, has developed a distinctive emerald sheen. Experts have finally unveiled ...

Ancient civilizations approached passing differently. While today’s embalmers use just enough preservative for a dignified ...

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Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds, co-edited by Huber.

ABC I try to explain the basics of film and television, in both broadcast and streaming modes, but discover after two ...

Now, groundbreaking research published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage has finally unraveled the chemical mystery behind this extraordinary preservation phenomenon. The teenage boy's remains, ...

The corpse that turned green has baffled scientists for decades. A teenager, buried in Italy hundreds of years ago, developed ...

A small sector of Silicon Valley is trying to live forever — literally — and Catholics are actively engaging with this ...

From prehistoric burials to overcrowded Victorian churchyards, this is what our treatment of the dead throughout history says about the living ...

As Egypt celebrates the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), Ahram Online revisits rare photos of the Golden King collection from its first display at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir in the early ...

Kauri trees are among the largest (total mass) in the world and can live upwards of 2500 years. The largest known living ...

Shirin Frangoul, Executive Director of the company that designed the Tutankhamun Gallery at the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), affirmed that the design aims to present a fully integrated context that ...