This Halloween, people in many places will be wearing two kinds of masks: one to be scary, the other to protect themselves and others against COVID-19. Yes, it’s another pandemic Halloween—and while ...

A team of researchers recently investigated the paint coating a 1,000-year-old gold mask taken from an elite tomb of a community in western Peru that is today known as the Sicán. They were intrigued ...

In the early 1990s, a tomb about 1000 years ago was excavated in Peru, South America, and a skull with a golden mask was found inside. This golden mask was painted red and the raw material remained ...

The first time Jonna Mendez wore a lifelike human mask, she grew increasingly paranoid. In the midst of a training exercise to test going undercover, the CIA’s former chief of disguise had chosen to ...

"The magistrate in whom the whole executive power resides cannot of himself make a law." This is from James Madison writing in Federalist #47. But he also realized that Constitutions don't enforce ...

A 1,000-year-old mask discovered on the head of an ancient skeleton was painted using human blood, according to a new study. Archaeologists with the Sicán Archaeological Project unearthed the gold ...

The ‘Human Mask’ film is inspired by a real situation in Japan, in which a monkey – wearing the mask of a young woman – has been trained to work as a waitress. The film opens with footage of the ...

THIS FUNERAL mask, photographed by Yoshii Yutaka of the Sicán Archaeological Project, in Peru, was discovered 30 years ago, 800km to the north of Lima. The Sicán were a group who flourished around 500 ...

When the pandemic began, many Americans had trouble wearing masks. No such problems were evident in Asian countries that had lived through SARS epidemics and prolonged mandatory masking. Of course, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. From card: "Exceptionally fine spec., ...