A death mask was traditionally made of monarchs and wealthy figures using wax or plaster moulded around the person's real ...

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 ...

When further inspection of the locker's contents reveals plaster "death masks," and one of those masks perfectly matches the dead woman's visage, Jennifer's "inner sleuth" kicks into overdrive as ...

It is made of cartonnage, layers of linen and papyrus, stiffened with plaster ... death in 1968, when it and other Egyptian objects were left to The Royal Pump Room Museum in Harrogate. This mask ...

It is made of cartonnage, layers of linen and papyrus, stiffened with plaster and then painted. It is one of only three surviving masks made for ... Hall until Benny's death in 1968, when it ...