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A deposit of hundreds of mummification tools is likely the largest ever found in Egypt. It could shed light on Ancient Egypt's still-mysterious mummification process. The artifacts suggest a mummy ...

BELLVILLE – Funeral director Ora O. Snyder saved everything from his days as a funeral director, including the collapsible “cooling board” made of wicker and wood that Snyder used in area homes in the ...

The National Museum of Funeral History is filled with hearses, coffins, embalming tools and other rites of death curios. Soon, human and animal portraits created with the subject's own ashes will line ...