Piercings have only been on those made for the masks of queens and children. Professor Fletcher made the revelations in a ...

Despite Paine's fame, his face was not well known but it has been preserved for posterity in his death mask, made by ... Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the ...

This is a plaster cast of Cromwell's wax death mask, made after the Lord Protector's death in 1658 (the Wax death mask can be seen in the British Museum). A controversial figure to many Cromwell ...

These death masks are reputedly of hanged Worcestershire prisoners of the early 19th Century. Convicted prisoners were hanged in the Gaol and their bodies taken through an underground tunnel ...

The collection was displayed upstairs in Tatefield Hall until Benny's death in 1968, when it and other Egyptian objects were left to The Royal Pump Room Museum in Harrogate. This mask would have ...