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Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are America's most prized materials: th

The meaning of our concern for mortal remains—from antiquity through the twentieth century The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body shou

With the help of some chemicals and a bit of hard work, bodies can have a long life well after a person’s death. Early embalming efforts in ancient Egypt were

To what extent are the dead truly dead? In medieval society, corpses were assigned special functions and meanings in several different ways. They were still pre