Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Death masks — made out of a wax or plaster cast put on a dead person's face — have long been part of human history. Below, morgue ...

Archaeologists working in Saqqara recently unearthed three funerary masks at least 1,800 years old. By Franz Lidz When it came to the dicey journey to the afterlife, the more affluent citizens of ...

Two days after the death of Egon Schiele in 1918, Gustinus Ambrosi, a young admiring sculptor, arrived at his coffin, opened it up, and made a mold of the man’s face. Though Ambrosi would memorialize ...

Were Silla Gold Crowns Actually Worn on the Head, or Were They Death Masks Covering the Faces of the Deceased? Researchers’ ...

In different parts of the world, and throughout the course of history, death has been memorialized in a variety of different ways. One of the more intriguing was death masks. Typically, a wax or ...

A death mask of infamous gangster John Dillinger can be found on display at the Florence County Museum. Stephen Motte and Cherish Thomas join Host Andrew Davis to discuss the background of this rather ...

This death mask of Napoleon Bonaparte is a plaster cast painted gold. It was created for the United States National Museum in 1904 from a copy of the death mask that Lieutenant John W. Timmons, U.S.N.