Some 67 million years ago, in what is now known as Slope County, North Dakota, an adolescent duck-billed dinosaur was killed and chewed up by various predators and scavengers. The Edmontosaurus left ...

LittleThings' creative director Maia McCann is showing us how to "mummify" your home with a simple DIY idea. All you need is some gauze, googly eyes, tea bags and the item you want to mummify to ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — For thousands of years, ancient Egyptians mummified their dead in the search for eternal life. Now, researchers have used chemistry and an unusual collection of jars to figure out ...

“I haven’t found a use for that yet, but you never know,” says the Illinois senator, whose new memoir is “Every Day Is a Gift.” What books are on your night stand? As a busy mom of a 6-year-old and a ...

Many cultures have found ways to preserve the human body after death, but how? In this one-minute video, our Ask Smithsonian Host, Eric Schulze, wraps up the answer. Ask Smithsonian: How Long Can a ...

It takes about 17 days, 10 pounds of salt, 20 pounds of baking soda, linen, and incense to mummify a small object. It also requires natron, one of the ingredients that Salima Ikram brought with her ...

Sokushinbutsu...Japenese Buddhist monks mummifying themselves. They started by eating seeds and nuts to eliminate their body fat, then they drink tea made out of a poisonous plant to infuse arsenic in ...

SALISBURY — North Hills Christian School fifth-grader Renna Linn was elated to pull on rubber gloves for her science class’ latest project — learning about mummification as it was done in ancient ...

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