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 workers make a death mask of notorious Depression-era gangster ...

Once a common type of memorial, death masks have been used in science, art, and beyond.

This is a short history of the death mask, and what it can reveal about how our attitudes to death have changed over the centuries.

Taos artist resculpts history in new national monument Nikesha Breeze sculpts bronze death masks to honor the millions of victims of the African Slave Trade.

An overlooked feature on King Tutankhamun's death mask has revealed how the young ruler was buried. King Tut ruled during Egypt's 18th Dynasty, from 1332 BC to 1323 BC before he died at 19.

Soon, the elaborately decorated artifact will be transferred to the brand new Grand Egyptian Museum, joining more than 5,000 other items from the boy king's tomb ...

Was Pharaoh Tutankhamun a “cast-off king”? Evidence shows that his shimmering golden death mask was made for someone else.

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 ...

Several notable historical figures are known to have death masks—a likeness of a person's face made after their death.

Secondly, neither of the doctors present had ever made a death mask before. The history of death masks stretches back millennia, deep into antiquity.