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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...