Recently, a team at the University of York has been investigating the pierced ears of Tutankhamun's burial mask. It's a feature that, the team claims, was usually reserved for female or young royalty.

A 52-year-old Michigan man on death row in Alabama was killed in the fourth nitrogen gas execution in the nation's history on ...

Researchers propose that his eye-catching gold funerary mask may have been intended for someone else but the pharaoh's untimely death, less than 10 years after he ascended the throne aged 9 ...

He died age 72 in New York on 8 June 1809. Despite Paine's fame, his face was not well known but it has been preserved for posterity in his death mask, made by Paine's friend John Wesley Jarvis.

King Tutankhamun’s iconic death mask may not have been crafted for him at all. Researchers from the University of York suggest it was initially intended for a high-status female or child ...

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 ...

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 ...