More than 100,000 curious visitors each year flock to the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, which dates back to 1849. It was ...

Anyone who has ever seen a Body Worlds exhibition of preserved human bodies has probably had this thought: Who were these people? And why did they agree to do this? A lot of them, as it turns out ...

In China, researchers studying the burial site of one of the world's most well-preserved mummies also unearthed what's ...

"He said he thought the body parts were bizarre and wanted to send them to his friends in the U.S.," Chumpol said, adding that the man was questioned for several hours and released without charges.

“It’s about the human body.” Lynn Kuratomi, a 65-year-old Los Angeles teacher and yoga instructor, called the original “Body Worlds” exhibition “magnificent and so educational.” ...

In "Body Worlds, The Original Exhibition of Real Human Bodies," which opens today at the Milwaukee Public Museum, whole organs, bodies and cross sections of each are on display in a way that is ...

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Drexel University Body Donor Program. Our students benefit from the generous act of whole-body donation. The gift of body donation plays a critical role in helping medical and health-professional ...

The first recorded discovery of a preserved human body in a peat bog was in 1640 in Germany. As peat moss occurs naturally in many wetland environments and can be burned as fuel, people have been ...

BODY WORLDS & The Cycle of Life is on display Oct. 17, 2020 - May 31, 2021.Non-members can purchase tickets here.Guests can purchase tickets online at www.hmns.org or in person at the HMNS Box ...

The Herald Tribune reported in 2002 a University of Florida neurology professor was fired and arrested after police found heads, brains, arms and other body parts preserved in Tupperware ...

Anyone who has ever seen a Gunther von Hagens “Body Worlds” exhibition of preserved human bodies has probably had this thought: Who were these people? And why did they agree to do this? Well ...