X-rays of Rosalia’s body \u00a9 ResearchgGate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nTo address these concerns, Rosalia Lombardo’s body was relocated to a more dry area of the catacombs, and her original coffin was put in a hermetically sealed glass container filled with nitrogen gas to prevent further decomposition. The mummy is still one of the tombs’ finest preserved corpses.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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