But alas, none worked. So, they took the door off its hinges. Inside, they found a death mask of Booth, cast in plaster. They later discovered, in the club’s archives, that the last mention of ...

King Tutankhamun's death mask is one of the most iconic Egyptian relics, but researchers claim it may not have been intended for the late pharaoh. A team from the University of York in the UK ...

Scientists have created an image of how Dante, the man who created our vision of hell more than 702 years ago, would have looked, using his skull. Poet and writer Dante Alighieri, who is also ...

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 ...

(Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, via Courthouse News) (CN) --- Can Italy's courts absolve Dante, 700 years after ...

Spanning the years from the early 1280s until about 1308, this collection of poems contains Dante's juvenilia as well as his more mature work prior to the Divine Comedy. Patrick Diehl's translation ...

With Alighieri born out of a tribute to books, and to Dante’s Inferno particularly, it is only fitting that founder Rosh Mahtani has come full circle when marking the jewellery brand’s tenth ...

They don’t feel special. Face masks, on the other hand, are an every-once-in-a-while treat for your skin. Sheet masks, which are a type of face mask, are popular for good reason — the masks ...

The knowledge of the true nature of the world is said to free humans from the cycle of suffering, death and rebirth ... to represent the writer, Dante Alighieri, leaning forward to observe the ...