ROME – With the passing of Pope John Paul II (search), a Rome family expected a call from the Vatican to embalm his body. The tradition, carried down from father to son, has for decades fallen to the ...

After 25 years of—forgive us—obscurity, Embalm’s remastered classic Prelude To Obscurity is being re-released by 20 Buck Spin. The record was re-released by Arthur Rizk and will officially be ...

Mordechai and Esther wrote the Megillah at the end of the Purim story to commemorate the Jewish victory over Haman and the saving of the Jewish people, but they wrote it with a particular audience in ...

New chemical analysis of iron age skulls confirms the grisly practice, referred to in ancient texts They were fearsome warriors who cut off the heads of their enemies and displayed them for all to see ...

I wish to suggest to the director of legal medicine/government pathologist and the police, that the present situation regarding on-the-spot post-mortem of decomposed bodies and the storage of ...

MANILA, Philippines — It was newly-crafted investigation guidelines under the coronavirus pandemic that caused medico-legal officers to embalm the body of a flight attendant before a proper autopsy ...