EditorialShawn’te Harvell, a professor of mortuary science, the manager of his own funeral home and a trade embalmer, in Asbury Park, N.J., Oct. 27, 2022. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
EditorialEmbalmers' Dockets, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1479?1458 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, below the Tomb of Senenmut (TT 71), burial 1, on mummy, 1935?36, Linen, ink, L. 16 ? W. 15 cm (6 5/16 ? 5 7/8 in.), This piece of ins...