Rosalia Lombardo
Italian child whose mummy is preserved in Palermo (1918–1920)
Rosalia Lombardo
Rosalia Lombardo (13 December 1918 – 6 December 1920) was an Italian child whose exceptionally well-preserved embalmed body is displayed in the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo in Sicily. She died of bronchopneumonia, likely as a complication of the Spanish flu, one week before her 2nd birthday. Following her death, her father, Mario Lombardo, commissioned the Palermo embalmer Alfredo Salafia to preserve her remains. Lombardo was one of the last people interred in the catacombs before burials there ceased. Her remarkable state of preservation has made her one of the best-known mummies in the catacombs and the subject of scientific study into early twentieth-century embalming techniques.
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