An abandoned mortuary complete with original embalming room has sold for £137,000 – more than twice its guide price. The creepy property was put up for auction with an estimate of around £55,000 by ...

Before the Civil War, embalming was performed mainly to preserve the body for the purpose of medical studies. There were no specific guidelines for the embalmer. Embalming was performed by those with ...

President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15th, 1865, mere hours after John Wilkes Booth inflicted the mortal gunshot wound, but his body had to survive a 19-day train ride across the country before ...

The old mortuary – which was last used to tend the dead 20 years ago – went under the hammer on Thursday and sparked a bidding war until it sold for £137,000 - £82,000 more than expected Auctioneers ...