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Of the parts of the human body, the bones have a unique durability that lends itself to collection. Skeletal remains can be recovered even milli...

Throughout the centuries, different cultures have established a variety of procedures for handling and disposing of corpses. Often the methods are ...

For many, a mummy is an Egyptian pharaoh, wrapped in cloth, found thousands of years later in a pyramid by archaeologists. But mummies need not be ...

Since Herophilus, the "father of anatomy," performed the first public human dissection in the third century B.C.E., audiences have been spellbou...