You'll need a large black robe or cape. Button or tie it down the middle, so what you wear underneath doesn't matter. You can use DIY Fashion's tutorial to Make a Hooded Cape. You can make a Death ...

Death masks are fascinating but slightly terrifying relics from an age before photos. Until cameras rendered them redundant, it was common for notable people to have metal, wax or plaster applied to ...

*This article contains details and images that some readers might find distressing. On 7 May 1821, two doctors were engrossed in a frantic search. There was a decomposing body at stake – and if they ...

She has the face of a sleeping beauty – eyes closed, the faintest and sweetest of smiles, hair carefully parted in the middle. There’s an appealing and absolute serenity about her and for a fleeting ...

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 say the ...

The Western world was once obsessed with these macabre memorials. *This article contains details and images that some readers might find distressing. On 7 May 1821, two doctors were engrossed in a ...