Death: Did you mean...?

The death mask of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun. The mask is made of gold, precious stones, and glass inlay, 14th century BCE. Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Cairo.

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 of Mactan on the island...

Death of Buddha, Thareli, Gandhara, 3rd-4th century CE. Taxila Museum, Pakistan.

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

An early 20th-century illustration showing the death of King Philip, aka Metacom (l. 1638-1676) who led a coalition of Native American tribes in King Philip’s War (aka Metacom’s War, 1675-1678) against English colonists.

A 15th century CE painting depicting the death of French king Louis IX in 1270 CE during the Eighth Crusade at Tunis.

A scene from the 16th-century Codex Telleriano-Remensis showing the death of Pedro de Alvarado (c. 1485-1541), the Spanish conquistador who became the first governor of Guatemala in 1527. Alvarado was killed in Mexico when his horse fell...

A dramatized depiction of the death of British General Sir Isaac Brock at the Battle of Queenston Heights (13 October 1812), by John David Kelly, 1896. Library & Archives Canada.

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

The death of General Richard Montgomery at the Battle of Quebec, 31 December 1775, climax of the American Invasion of Quebec (September 1775-June 1776). Oil on canvas by John Trumbull, 1786. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.