Her hair and eyelashes still intact, Lombardo has stayed so life-like she’s called the “Sleeping Beauty of Palermo,” and is thought to be the best preserved mummy in the world. Hers was the ...

The Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo houses a macabre collection of 1,100 mummies dating back hundreds of years. The mummies are dressed in robes and pinned to the walls, sitting on benches or lying ...

Her hair and eyelashes still intact, Lombardo has stayed so life-like she’s called the “Sleeping Beauty of Palermo,” and is thought to be the best preserved mummy in the world. Hers was the ...

“No one has looked at the mummies to better understand these attributes before.” The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, the largest collection of mummified remains in Europe, contain some 1,284 ...

Before they enter this strange realm, visitors to Europe's largest collection of mummies must pass a grim ... population too and after a while wealthy Palermo folk took to visiting the remains ...

and a face-to-face encounter with 8,000 mummies is the experience offered by the Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Italy, a museum unlike any other in the world. EFE Palermo, Italy, May 12 (EFE ...

has led to her being nicknamed the "Sleeping Beauty of Palermo". Credit: REUTERS/Tony Gentile Only around 1,000 of the mummies have been formally identified, with their dates of birth and death.

The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo serve as both a macabre tourist attraction as well as an extraordinary record of history. Today the catacombs are lined with around 8,000 mummies, often hung like ...

Article continues below The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo hold well over 8,000 bodies ... called in to solve the mystery behind the child mummies in Sicily. The embalming was performed by Alfredo ...

The Capuchin friars will work together with the Biology department of Palermo University to "study, restore and preserve the skeletons and mummies, as well as the manuscripts and works of art in ...

“No one has looked at the mummies to better understand these attributes before.” Image: Capuchin Catacombs (Alessandra Tarantino / AP) The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, the largest collection ...