More than 100 years after her death, Rosalia Lombardo continues to captivate the world. Preserved inside a glass coffin in the Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, the two-year-old girl looks so lifelike that many visitors believe she is merely asleep. Nicknamed the “Sleeping Beauty of Palermo” and often described as the world’s most beautiful mummy, Rosalia has become the subject of documentaries, scientific research and internet myths, particularly the long-standing claim that she opens and closes her eyes.
