Rosalia Lombardo's mummy puzzle

The heroine of our story was born in Sicily on December 13, 1918 AD and was a beautiful girl with golden tufts, blue eyes and milky white skin that filled her parents' house with love and happiness, but her father Mario Lombardo and her mother Maria de Caro did not acknowledge it. She was severely affected by bronchopneumonia (1)
The best treatment was provided to her at the time, but she was young and lacked the immunity to fight the disease. And I left Dianna on December 6, 1920 AD
Despite the end of the Spanish flu at the time, it appears that the pneumonia that affected it was caused by this deadly pandemic.

Her desperate father, Mario Lombardo, was shocked and shattered by the loss of his dear child, who died one week before her completion of her second year, he could not bear that tragedy until he refused to bury her body. And he had the idea of keeping his little girl even when she was dead.
The famous Italian pharmacist at the time asked Professor Alfredo Salavia to embalm it and keep its appearance as alive as possible.

 

 Mummification was and is still not common in Western society, but some cultures are still practicing it until now, and this pharmacist was considered the best option for that task because of his extensive knowledge of methods of preserving bodies. And when the story of Rosalia reached his hearing, he refused to take his wages from her father.

       Professor Alfredo Salavia 

 

Rosalia's angelic face pushed Professor Salavia to develop embalming techniques to preserve her natural beauty. And he did! As the mummy of Rosalia is the most beautiful and most like the living in the world.

In the seventies of the last century, a manuscript written by Salavia handwriting documenting the process of embalming Rosalia's body was discovered, and these observations contained the formulas of the chemicals used in embalming:

Glycerin
Formaldehyde (Saturated Formaldehyde)
Zinc sulfate
Salicylic alcohol
Chlorine

These substances were most likely injected into the femoral artery.
The girl has been embalmed in a way that excites scientists to this day

Today, the Rosalia mummy sits inside a glass coffin in a crypt for the dead (2) in Palermo, Sicily, with another 8,000 mummies, which is the largest mummy cemetery in the world that was established in the late sixteenth century under the Palermo Monastery.
Although a law was established prohibiting the display of the remains of the dead and the mummies long ago before the death of Rosalia, Rosalia was excluded and was the last to be buried in this basement.

Cemetery of Cappuccine in Italy is one of the strangest cemeteries .. The bodies of her dead were exposed

Rosalia's body is preserved excellent due to the dry weather inside the basement. Visitors to the monastery and the believers described the mummy as a miracle because the eyeballs, her golden hair, eyelashes, and swollen cheeks were soft for a girl who died a hundred years ago as if she were alive. And so I knew the sleeping beauty.
Not only that, but even its inner guts are still intact, as they appear in the x-ray.
X-rays show that the inner viscera is still intact

A strange story, isn't it!!!? ? .. Wait, we haven't started yet ..

After a period of a frightening situation or phenomenon that spread terror among the tourists who visit the crypt of the dead, it appears that Rosalia opens her blue eyes and closes them several times a day, accompanied by hearing the voices of children crying next to her and sometimes hum and words with a whisper, according to some visitors, And quickly This news has not spread and the World Wide Web has been inflamed.

Does the girl open her eyes? .. Compare the two pictures and judge for yourself

In 2009 the biologist and human anthropologist Dario Pompeino Mascali refuted the myth related to the mummy Rosalia, according to his statement that all visitors see is visual illusion. And that the paraffin wax that covers the girl's face creates an illusion that she looks directly at whoever looks at her, as the angle from which light enters through the windows of the monastery, which changes during the day, makes her eyes look closed at times and open at other times.

 
What supports Mascali's analysis is that Jaffna Rosalia is not really completely closed and is mostly made by Alfredo Salavia to make it look vibrant.

With regard to the current state of the mummy, a picture in 2009 with the National Geographic lens showed that the mummy had some signs of decomposition, most notably the change of color, and to address this problem the coffin was moved to a drier spot inside a sealed glass container with nitrogen gas to keep it from decomposition.

Finally ..

I think that the pictures taken of the girl seem very clear and are - as my eyes see them - in the same angle and with the same lighting, and in my opinion this girl opens her eyes and actually closes them. Perhaps the survival of its soft tissue as described in the article contributed to keeping its nerves flexible and we all know that after the death of a person there are involuntary cramps and movements accompanying the pre-tibs and decomposition stage. God knows...
Perhaps there are other interpretations similar to what we see in the films, which is that the soul of the dead does not rest or rest until it becomes clear until after the movie hero discovers the location of the remains and bury them or burn them in particular.

Perhaps that hum, whisper, and screaming of children, which is often heard, is nothing but the mummy being called in by visitors to complete her burial properly. And as the saying goes to us (the honor of the dead buried).

So what do you think dear readers, do you agree with me, do you agree with Dario Mascali, or are there other opinions that are much happier to read?.

 

Margins:

(1) Pneumonia: It is a subtype of pneumonia that leads to bronchitis or bronchitis, and its complications include respiratory failure and heart problems.

(2) The Kobuchians: They are members of a Catholic religious group and described as the Kobashians, derived from the word Kabbouch, which is a long hood with a thin edge that the monks wore. They wore galabies that tended to brown reddish and came from it to name cappuccino.

Sources :

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