The history of medicine is filled with remedies that, viewed through a modern lens, seem perplexing, misguided or downright ...

Researchers are beginning to reveal details about St. Teresa of Avila, the 16th-century Catholic saint whose body was found miraculously intact last year.

Catholics gathered to witness the body of ‘God’s influencer’ in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Assisi, Italy ...

Placing a body in an oxygen-free environment ... not their skill, that preserved their dead. Arid desert winds and blazing hot sand could dry corpses out quickly enough to mummify them.

The preserved bodies of dead babies - some with umbilical cords still attached - were found in a house of horrors in Japan. Termite exterminators working on a house renovation in Tokyo uncovered ...

Pilgrims have journeyed to the medieval town of Assisi in Italy to view the preserved body of British-born Carlo Acutis ahead of his canonisation as a saint next month. Acutis, who died aged 15 ...

A 30,000-year-old vulture feather from Central Italy was preserved down to the microscopic level by volcanic rock.