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 ...

Plaster Cast of Head FoundGULDENSUPPE DEATH MASK; Fragments of Plaster Cast Found Which May Have Inclosed the Murdered Man's Head. IN A POOL AT WOODSIDE A Little Girl Discovered Them in a Swamp ...

Most death masks are cast as soon as possible, before decay distorts features and makes applying plaster a slippery proposition. Henry IV, on the other hand, had been dead for nearly 200 years ...

The anonymous homeowner said her husband found what they believe is a death mask, a Victorian-era plaster cast of a person’s face right after they died, lurking underneath the floors of their ...

Back on the island of Saint Helena, the two doctors still needed to make Napoleon's death mask – and they still couldn't find any fresh plaster. But the pair had a couple of backup ideas.

Inside, they found a death mask of Booth, cast in plaster. They later discovered, in the club’s archives, that the last mention of the mask had been in the 1950s, meaning it had been locked up ...

When further inspection of the locker's contents reveals plaster "death masks," and one of those masks perfectly matches the dead woman's visage, Jennifer's "inner sleuth" kicks into overdrive as ...

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 ...

An "exceedingly rare" bronze cast of Egon Schiele's death mask sold for $24,600-more than ten times its estimated price-this week at London's Sloane Street Auctions sale of 20th Century, Modern ...