lunes, 5 de diciembre de 2011
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MUMMY OF THE WORLD: ROSALIA LOMBARDO
Rosalia Lombardo was an Italian child born in 1918 in Palermo, Sicily. She died of pneumonia on December 6, 1920. Rosalia's father, General Lombardo, was sorely grieved upon her death, so he approached Alfredo Salafia, a noted embalmer, to preserve her. Her body was one of the last corpses to be admitted to the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo in Sicily.
Thanks to Salafia's embalming techniques, the body was well-preserved. X-rays of the body show that all the organs are remarkably intact. Rosalia Lombardo's body is kept in a small chapel at the end of the catacomb's tour and is encased in a glass covered coffin, placed on a marble pedestal. A 2009 National Geographic photograph of Rosalia Lombardo shows the mummy is beginning to show signs of decomposition, most notably discoloration. To address these issues the mummy was moved to a new drier spot in the catacombs, and her original coffin was placed in a hermetically sealed glass enclosure with nitrogen gas to prevent decay. The mummy is one of the best preserved bodies in the catacombs.
BY: LINDA CAROLYNE RODRIGUEZ MARIN
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in your words, what is an " momia" ? ( Jonatan Guerra )
ResponderEliminarA mummy is a person's body that has been embalmed by means of a technique to preserve it in good condition as if that person was slept.
ResponderEliminarLinda Carolyne Rodriguez Marin.
What is the cause of rosalia´s death? (Ayrton Rojo Arango)
ResponderEliminaras a child I was very afraid of mummies, but now I see that it is more the respect that I had people to death, and his concern for the life after death (jorge arias)
ResponderEliminarWhy use the mummies film to horror movies? (Jorge arias)
ResponderEliminarThe blog presents a very interesting topic, I would like to talk about how mummification techniques developed in the countries of Latin America.; also like to know if I agree that humans should be the subject of mummification.(karen stave Quesada,-the world of warcraft)
ResponderEliminarRosalia died of a pneumonia.
ResponderEliminarThe mummies are used in terror movies because they are dead people that have been preserved by means of momification techniques and their bodies seem alive.
Linda Carolyne Rodriguez Marin.