Letters to the Editor: Killing and mummifying snakes is an odd way to save the planet A jar containing preserved snake specimens at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology on Oct. 18.

They’re frozen in time. No need for embalming fluid in this mysterious village. In a scenario straight out of a zombie apocalypse movie, deceased residents in the Colombian mountain town of San ...

THE BUSINESS of dead bodies is icky at best but in Mummifying Alan: Egypt's Last Secret C4 made it both fascinating and moving. Taxi driver Alan Billis volunteered to be the first man for 3,000 ...

A 66-year-old son has admitted mummifying his mother's body using cat litter and preserving her to keep receiving her benefits, officials have said.

Egypt has started work on mummifying the shark that devoured a Russian tourist so that it can be displayed at a museum, according to local media. The body parts of Vladimir Popov, 23, who was ...

Ancient tomb reveals that Egyptians were mummifying their dead 1,500 years earlier than previously thought Traces of embalming agents were found in linen used to wrap bodies discovered in one of ...

The simplified and complex forms have descended in one continuous line. As early as 1909, Lu Feikui, the publishing veteran, publicly advocated simplifying Chinese characters for the first time in ...

A fundamental problem is that nobody really knows what happens to bodies buried in coffins. Scientists in Portugal are now working to uncover the cause of the strange mummifications. Grave recycling ...

The ancient Egyptians seem to have taken as much care with mummifying animals as they did humans, according to new research from the University of Bristol published in Nature this week. Professor ...

L.A. Times Archives Oct. 25, 2003 12 AM PT From Times Staff and Wire Reports ...

Directed by Kenny Scott, the BAFTA award-winning documentary Mummifying Alan: Egypt's Last Secret explores a mystery that has baffled scientists for centuries: how were the Ancient Egyptians able ...