Long before ancient Egypt created its famous death masks, Neolithic people in the Levant were carving human faces from ...

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 ...

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 ...

A death mask of the Viennese painter Egon Schiele has sold at auction for £19,000 ($24,600), nearly 10 times its pre-sale estimate. Gustinus Ambrosi’s The Death Mask of Egon Schiele (1918) was one of ...

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 ...

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 John ...