Thanks for watching…. Rosalia Lombardo (December 13, 1918 in Palermo, Italy – December 6, 1920), was an Italian kid who died of pneumonia. Rosalia’s father, Official Mario Lombardo, was sorely suffered upon her death, so he advanced Alfredo Salafia, a noted embalmer, to reserve her. Her body was one of the last stiffs to be acknowledged to the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo in Sicily. Preserving Thanks to Salafia’s embalming methods, the body was well conserved. X-rays of the body show that all the organs are strangely intact.
Rosalia Lombardo’s body is kept in a small chapel at the end of the catacomb’s tour and is covered in a crystal covered coffin, placed on a wooden pedestal. A 2009 National Geographic photo of Rosalia Lombardo shows the mummy is commencement to show signs of decomposition, record particularly staining. To address these matters the mummy was moved to a drier spot in the catacombs, and her unique coffin was located in a hermetically sealed glass enclosure with nitrogen gas to prevent decay. The mummy is one of the best well-preserved bodies in the catacombs. Technique Recently, the mummification techniques used by Salafia were discovered in a handwritten memoir of Salafia’s. Salafia replaced the girl’s blood with a fluid made of formalin to kill bacteria, liquor to dry the body, glycerin to retain her from over drying, salicylic acid to kill fungi, and zinc salts to give her body rigidity. Hence, the formula’s structure is “one-part glycerin, one-part formalin flooded with both zinc sulfate and chloride, and one part of an alcohol clarification saturated with salicylic acid.” Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalia_Lombardo
