This is a plaster cast of Cromwell's wax death mask, made after the Lord Protector's death in 1658 (the Wax death mask can be seen in the British Museum). A controversial figure to many Cromwell ...
Known as the gilded lady because of her golden headdress, the mummy belonged to a woman who lived in Roman-occupied Egypt and died in her 40s, possibly of tuberculosis, authors postulated.