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Gold death mask, possibly of Khaemweset (c. 1281 - c. 1225 BCE), son of Ramesses II, Crown Prince, high priest of Ptah at Memphis and famous restorer of Egyptian monuments. Saqqara tomb, Egypt. (Louvre Museum, Paris)

"The Death of King Arthur" by Marek Szyszko. Courtesy of Medieval Warfare Magazine / Karwansaray Publishers.

An illustration showing the arrest, trial, and execution of Diego de Almagro (c. 1475-1538) the Spanish conquistador who participated in expeditions of conquest to Peru and Chile. Almagro was strangled to death in Cusco...

Death of King Chilperic I (l. c. 539-584), by Évariste Vital Luminais, 1885. Hôtel de ville, Lyon.

An Attic red-figure stamnos depicting the death of Orpheus, c. 470 BCE. (Louvre, Paris)

An illustration depicting the death of the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480-1521) whose expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe in 1519-22. Magellan was killed on 27 April 1521 at the Battle...

Death of Marat, oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David, 1793. Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels.

The death of Prince Józef Poniatowski on 19 October 1813, during the Battle of Leipzig. Oil on canvas by Horace Vernet, 1816.

Death of British Maj. Gen. Sir Edward Pakenham (1778-1815) at the Battle of New Orleans (8 Jan 1815). Artwork by F. O. C. Darley, engraved by W. Ridgway, 1860. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Depicted here is the Death of King Władysław Jagiellończyk (r. 1424-1444 CE) at the Battle of Varna. This was a decisive moment in the Crusade of Varna, as the Turks under Sultan Murad II (r. 1421-1444 CE and...