In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Funerals are often one of life's biggest and last expenses. Planning ahead can be uncomfortable, but it can save money and ...

By Robert Andre Emmanuel [email protected] There is no wrong way for any family to express grief when a ...

More than 160 cremation graves were discovered at the ancient site of Olbia, which began as a fortified Greek settlement around 350 B.C. in what is now the south of France. The ge ...

Rituals around death are cultural expressions that occasionally collide with an individual's feelings. A supportive environment provides understanding within societal structures.

His work begins when someone dies. The dead is brought to him and laid on a steel table in a fluorescent-lit, ...

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

Filipinos often say, “Mahal mabuhay, pero mahal din mamatay.” Lois Eunice Salazar didn’t realize the full weight of these ...

Still, some professionals face death daily, like wayfarers in the Nile, guiding carcasses to their caskets and preparing them for a dignified trip to the afterlife. It is morticians, like Katrina ...