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 ...

A woman who moved into a converted Victorian home discovered it had more than creaky floorboards. The anonymous homeowner said her husband found what they believe is a death mask, a Victorian-era ...

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 ...

MacDara Ó Conaola recounts the story passed down through his family about the night that his grand-uncle's father Albert Power RHA made Michael Collins' death mask in Dublin. My grand-uncle John and I ...

Irish writer Brendan Behan died on this day, March 20, 1964. To mark the anniversary, MacDara Ó Conaola recounts a humorous story about the crafting of Behan's death mask. My granduncle James and I ...

A death mask of infamous gangster John Dillinger can be found on display at the Florence County Museum. Stephen Motte and Cherish Thomas join Host Andrew Davis to discuss the background of this rather ...

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 ...