Also called 'Black Death' and 'Pestilence' and 'Great Mortality ... to toe and covered half of their face with a beak shaped ...

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

Death masks of criminals were made across the Western ... Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors, who are the museums and members of the public.

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 ...

He also created various series of death masks of figures like iconic filmmaker John Ford and the short-lived cartoon pitchman Frito Bandito, both of which are part of the 12 masks on display at ...

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 ...