Rosalia Lombardo has been dead for over 100 years. She did not live to be more than two years old. As one of many mummies in Palermo's Capuchin Crypt, her preserved body is now a tourist attraction.
A week before her second birthday, Rosalia died of the Spanish flu.
The father wanted his daughter to be buried in the Capuchin crypt. Due to the microclimate, corpses are especially well preserved there.
He also hired a chemist to save his daughter's body from decay.
A mixture of glycerin enriched with chlorides and zinc sulfate and formaldehyde, combined with an alcohol solution with salicylic acid, was used for preservation.
To this day, you can see every hair of Rosalia, who died in 1920.
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