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The Real Sleeping Beauty
This little girl, known better as Rosalia Lombardo lies in the catacombs of Palermo, Italy. Rosalia died of pneumonia in 1920, she appears to be merely dozing but she has in actual fact been preserved in the glass
coffin for over 90 years after her death.
She is considered one of the world’s greatest preserved bodies. Morbid as this might seem, many have been fascinated by the secret formula once proposed by, Dario Piombino Mascali, an Anthropologist from the institute for mummies and the Iceman in Bolzano.
The chemicals consisted of Zinc Salts, Alcohol, Formalin, Salicylic acid and glycerin. The Zinc Salts in particular proved the most successful in preserving the flesh.
- Sally.
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