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Death In Vegas, the alias of DJ and producer Richard Fearless, has a new album on the way, titled Death Mask. Spanning nine tracks, it’s Fearless’ first album as Death In Vegas since 2016’s Concrete, ...
Matsue in western Japan is famous for its peony blossom, but a plan to hold a ‘samurai death’ contest in the city has not been well-received. (EPA Images pic) An outlandish contest daring ...
TOKYO — An outlandish contest daring participants to impersonate Japanese samurai writhing in pain after "seppuku" — ritual suicide — has been called off after criticism that it was in poor taste.
Below, morgue workers make a death mask of notorious Depression-era gangster John Dillinger, who died in a shootout with FBI agents on July 22, 1934. Brandstaetter Images / Getty Images Here's ...
Tutankhamun’s death mask is one of the most-recognized images around the globe. Measuring 21 inches tall, inlaid with a detailed mosaic of precious stones, and featuring a 5.5 lb golden beard ...
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 ...
Join the Student Friends of the Princeton University Library on a tour of the Hutton Death Mask Collection, as well as an array of other spooky items in Special Collections, with Librarian Emma ...
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 ...
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 ...
A bronze death mask of Egon Schiele from a mould produced by the Austrian artist Gustinus Ambrosi is to be sold in London on 23 October at Sloane Street Auctions. Schiele, a famed Expressionist ...