Embalming fluid is one street name for liquid forms of PCP that dealers dip cigarettes in, but people sometimes use actual embalming fluid for similar mind-altering effects. Phencyclidine (PCP) is an ...

President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15th, 1865, mere hours after John Wilkes Booth inflicted the mortal gunshot wound, but his body had to survive a 19-day train ride across the country before ...

Plastination is an embalming process used to preserve bodies. The process involves dehydrating the body tissue and replacing certain tissues with synthetic materials (like plastics). But don’t worry, ...

Formaldehyde has undergone quite the image makeover. Best known as the heady, sickly sweet-smelling chemical commonly used to bathe the recently deceased in high school biology labs and funeral homes ...

Based on a manual recently discovered in a 3,500-year-old medical papyrus, University of Copenhagen Egyptologist Sofie Schiødt has been able to help reconstruct the embalming process used to prepare ...