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

One of the family's German shepherds was found dead 10 to 15 feet away from ... and once mummification is reached, the body can be preserved in that state for an extended period of time." ...

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

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 ...