King Tut’s iconic mask is 21 inches tall, inlaid with precious stones, and features a 5.5-pound golden beard as part of the larger 22.5-pound gold mask. That beard may have been an afterthought when ...

Immediately afterwards, her features, including every wrinkle, were captured in a death mask - a recreation cast in plaster of Paris from a mould applied to her face. But even before her death ...

Professor Joann Fletcher of the University of York told History Hit audiences that the Tutankhamun's ears are an "overlooked" ...

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 ...

A diamond-studded necklace thought to be involved in a scandal that led to the eventual downfall of the last queen of France, ...

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 ...

Marie Antoinette Boullard-Devé settled in Indochina in the early 1920s where she traveled and painted, depicting the local inhabitants and their culture. In the International Colonial Exhibition of ...

Carmen: We won’t bore you with the details you should already know if you truly are a “Folio” fan (wink wink), but with Halloween right around the corner, let’s chat a bit about why we enjoy being ...

In fact, the phrase was only ascribed to Marie Antoinette 50 years after her death in 1843, by the writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr in a journal called Les Guêpes. Even then, he writes of how ...

“Marie Antoinette,” created by Tony-award-winning University of Iowa alum David Adjmi, is a modern take on the infamous royal, detailing her macabre journey from exorbitant queen to societal outcast.

Marie-Antoinette was passionate about dance from a very young age, becoming one of the main exponents of rumberas cinema (Photo: INAH) Although he divorced Orol in 1946, the filmmaker always ...

Antoinette (Toni) Weber passed away peacefully ... O.D. She was predeceased by her brother Thomas Alu and her sister Marie Cortese. She is survived by her dear brother Joseph Alu and her four ...