Mysterious mummy 100 years fresh, beautiful

The 2-year-old Italian face Rosalia Lombardo (1918 - 6/12/1920) is still intact, fresh, looking like she is sleeping soundly.

The mummy of 2-year-old Italian girl Rosalia Lombardo (1918 - 6/12/1920) is considered the "most beautiful mummy in the world" . The baby's face was still intact, fresh, looking like a good night's sleep.

Beautiful mummy

Lombardo died 2 years old on December 6, 1920 because of the flu. Her father, General Lombardo, was heartbroken when his beloved daughter died and wanted to preserve her shape. The general went to the house to marinate Alfredo Salafia to preserve his body. He asked to preserve the body of the daughter in the tomb of Capuchin in Palermo (Italy). Rosalia is the last case received at this grave.

Baby Rosalia looks very fresh like she is sleeping

After nearly a century, the Rosalia girl's corpse was as fresh and lovely as sleeping in a very peaceful sleep. The blond hair still lingered on the innocent face of the baby, still with a beautiful hairpin on her head. Every day, there are many tourists who come here to watch the beautiful Rosalia's body.

Rosalia baby mummified recipe

It has long been questioned why Rosalia's nearly 100-year-old mummy still retains the freshness of a living person like that?

Scientist Dario Piombino-Mascali, an anthropologist of the Mummy Research Institute and the iceman in Bolzano (Italy), found the answer. He found the secret formula to help Rosalia's body be preserved well to this day.

Rosalia's body was preserved in Capuchin tomb in Palermo (Italy)

Scientist Piombino-Mascali reached out to the surviving relatives of the Salafia, a mummy who had embalmed the baby Rosalia and died in 1933. Luckily, Mascali found a manuscript of the Salafia, in which should the chemicals injected into the baby Rosalia to preserve her body.

Specifically, Salafia used substances: formalin (formaldehyde solution), zinc salts, alcohol, salicylic acid and glycerin.

Formalin today is widely used in embalming. This is a mixture of formaldehyde and water, this solution works to kill bacteria. Salafia is one of the first people in the world to use this mixture to embalm. Alcohol and dry environment in the crypt will help Rosalia's body dry. Glycerin helps your baby's body not lose too much water and salicylic acid helps prevent fungal growth.

However, according to Melissa Johnson Williams - director of the American Association of Mummification, said that zinc salt is the factor that helps the body of Rosalia still intact, making her body Rosalia petrified. Nowadays in the US people no longer use this type of zinc salt.

And scientist Piombino-Mascali praised and called Salafia mummified as an artist and raised mummified to the highest level.