It's a process described as "not a pretty sight" that involves the extraction of all the blood from a corpse. But if Venezuela needs help embalming Hugo Chavez then Russia has expertise stretching ...

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 ...

New chemical analysis of iron age skulls confirms the grisly practice, referred to in ancient texts They were fearsome warriors who cut off the heads of their enemies and displayed them for all to see ...