In the Roman era, elite citizens often honoured the death of a family member by creating idealised funerary masks. These "imagines" weren't usually buried with the deceased, but kept as memorials ...

The exhibition explores two lines of inquiry: the cultural significance and ephemeral qualities of masks associated with funerary ceremonies in New Irelandand the circulation of such objects beyond ...

Whether providing care for the body of the deceased with intricate textile shrouds and sculpted death masks ... Funerary arts are a pillar of deathcare, and they shed light on the significance of ...

Archaeologists working in Saqqara recently unearthed three funerary masks at least 1,800 years old ... a professor of Egyptian art and architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Visitors have just days left to see the boy king's world-famous gold funerary mask before it joins more than 5,000 artefacts from his tomb at the GEM, a $1-billion megaproject opening on July 3.