Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lenin's embalmed corpse is one of the biggest attractions in Moscow, drawing a mix of tourists and communists to his tomb. But ...

Vietnam's communist government has formed a special council to assess the state of its most sacred icon: the corpse -- first embalmed by Soviet chemists and other forensic specialists a half-century ...

The greatest embalming job of the 20th Century was the mummification of V. I. Lenin. Until last week, the technique had always remained a dark secret of Soviet science. Finally, Dr. Herwig Hamperl, ...

Who would have thought that a play titled "Lenin's Embalmers" would be so lively? Canadian playwright Vern Thiessen's take on history is a remarkably frisky one as he tells the tale of Boris Zbarsky ...