Little Rosalia Lombardo and The Mystery of the Blinking Mummy

In the depths of the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo in Sicily lies the dead body of a young girl in a wooden and glass casket. The name of that girl is Rosalia Lombardo, who tragically died due to pneumonia in 1920, at the age of two. The heartbroken father of Rosalia sought the help of an embalmer named Alfredo Salafia to preserve his child’s body. The body was so amazingly preserved that Rosalia’s body is intact over 100 years later. It is considered one of the best-preserved mummies in the world.

WARNING: This article contains an image of a dead child’s preserved body.