D eath 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 workers make a death mask of notorious Depression-era ...

Learn more about Te K'ab Chaak, the first Maya king from Caracol whose tomb is rewriting the history of Maya-Mesoamerica relations.

The death mask may prove pivotal in resolving the controversy: If the head maps to the mask, it will be solid evidence that the head of one of France's greatest kings survived the lime pit. 2.

The history of death masks stretches back millennia, deep into antiquity. Most of them were not exact replicas taken from moulds, but artworks created for elite members of society ...

LIFELIKE: Forensic scientists and anthropologists use death masks to analyze how facial characteristics affected the lives of some of history’s most-powerful men, including Abraham Lincoln, in ...

The mask was cast from a mold taken shortly after Napoleon’s death, according to New Orleans gallery M.S. Rau Antiques, which is selling the unusual artifact for $34,500.

The death mask was made by surgeon Francis Burton of Britain’s Sixty-Sixth Regiment of Foot on May 7th, 1821, two days after Napoleon’s death on St. Helena.

Evidence shows that his shimmering golden death mask was made for someone else. The boy-king Tutankhamun is a relatively insignificant Pharaoh in Egypt’s 3000-year history.

In 1903, Pausch was commissioned to create a sculpture of McKinley for a monument to be erected in Penn’s Commons, now Reading City Park. He used the death mask he made of McKinley as a model ...

N95 respirators and surgical masks are worn by medical professionals treating people infected with the coronavirus. The respirators protect the wearer from inhaling the aerosolized/airborne virus.

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