Archaeologists at Saqqara have finally identified the many embalming ingredients used to mummify the dead in ancient Egypt. They also deciphered how those different ingredients — many of which came ...

It wasn’t exactly a fate worse than death, but Pablo Dayao had always felt that he was meant to do a job most people avoid, even abhor. Call it destiny, he said, of his job as licensed embalmer at the ...

She treats her eight-hour job both as a science and an art—but one with an unforgiving “deadline.” On a typical workday, May Cardenas, a 28-year-old biology graduate of the University of the ...