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 ...

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.

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 ...

When Martin Luther died on February 18, 1546, during a trip back to his hometown of Eisleben, Germany, it is said that plaster was made and spread over his lifeless face and hands. Lukas Furtenagel, ...

For centuries, four mummified individuals from the Colombian Andes lay in museums, their faces sealed under ornate masks. And I mean sealed shut. Now, thanks to cutting-edge digital reconstruction, ...

Zarco Guerrero wants to teach us to laugh in the face of death during this year’s Día de Los Muertos holiday. The master sculptor – a mask-making guru who has honed his skills studying worldwide for ...

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 ...