{"id":17401,"date":"2024-01-27T21:55:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T02:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/?p=17401"},"modified":"2024-01-27T21:55:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T02:55:24","slug":"rosalia-lombardo-blinking-mummy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mru.ink\/rosalia-lombardo-blinking-mummy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosalia Lombardo: The mystery of the “Blinking Mummy”","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though mummification is still practised in some distant cultures, it is uncommon in the Western world. Rosalia Lombardo, a two-year-old girl, died in 1920 from an intensified case of bronchopneumonia, a kind of pneumonia that involves inflammation in the alveoli.<\/p>\n

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Rosalia Lombardo \u2013 The Blinking Mummy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Despite providing her with the greatest medicine available at the time, she was still extremely young and lacked the necessary immune system to combat bronchopneumonia.<\/p>\n

Mario Lombardo: A desperate father<\/h4>\n

Mario Lombardo, her father, wanted to uncover the specific cause of her death so he could “blame” someone. The Lombardo family was Italian, and despite the fact that the Spanish flu pandemic was coming to an end, the girl’s pneumonia appeared to have been caused by this lethal illness. Mario Lombardo refused to bury her daughter, claiming that losing his son had left him distraught.<\/p>\n

Rosalia died barely one week before her second birthday. Mario was so devastated by her death that he asked Alfredo Salafia (a well-known Italian pharmacist) to mummify her and keep her “as alive as possible” (by looking). Alfredo Salafia was regarded as the finest because of his extensive knowledge in the preservation of corpses.<\/p>\n

Rosalia Lombardo’s story reached Professor Salafia, as he never charged his father for his services. Rosalia Lombardo’s angel face pushed him to improve the preservation technique in order to preserve its natural beauty. Rosalia Lombardo’s mummified body appeared to be the most alive mummy in the world.<\/p>\n

Notes documenting Rosalia’s mummification were discovered in the 1970s. The notes are yet another formula for several chemicals used in mummification:<\/p>\n