Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto.

Labelled pots found in a 2,500-year-old embalming workshop have revealed the plant and animal extracts used to prepare ancient Egyptian mummies — including ingredients originating hundreds and even ...

Deep inside a shaft in the cemetery of Abusir, near Cairo, a team of Egyptian and Czech Egyptologists has found a significant cache of equipment used more than 2,500 years ago to embalm mummies. The ...

Mix exotic tree resins with cedar or juniper oil, add some castor oil, animal fats or beeswax, then apply to the head. Around 2,500 years ago, this aromatic cocktail was used by ancient Egyptian ...

Researchers have identified the specific recipes used by the ancient Egyptians nearly 3,000 years ago to make mummies! The findings came after more than thirty large ceramic pots were discovered at a ...

It is thought a range of chemicals were used to embalm and preserve the bodies of the dead in ancient cultures. Russian scientists believe a different balm was used to preserve hair fashions of the ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's body is expected to be embalmed and put on permanent display. How do you preserve a body indefinitely? At the moment, the "Dear Leader's" body is on temporary display ...

MANILA, Philippines—The mortician famous for putting dead dictator Ferdinand Marcos into a glass display case offered his services Friday to the deceased Hugo Chavez, whom Venezuela wants embalmed ...

The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez may not have known Frank Malabed in life but maybe his remains will. A Filipino mortician famous for putting the remains of dictator Ferdinand Marcos into a ...