In 1920, a young girl named Rosalia Lombardo died of pneumonia caused by the Spanish Flu, just one week before her second ...

A team of scientists is trying to find out why dozens of children were mummified and buried in catacombs at a convent on the Italian island of Sicily. The first comprehensive study of the child ...

Some of the children are so well preserved they look like "tiny little dolls." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The mummified and ...

Very little is known about more than 160 children interred in Sicily’s world-famous Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, and why their slight and often mummified bodies were placed there in the first place.

Today, in places you may not have known but now feel the need to visit at least once in your life, we’re going to take a look at the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo. As its name suggests, this site is ...

The first ever comprehensive study of mummified children in Sicily’s famous Capuchin Catacombs is being led by Staffordshire University. Dr Kirsty Squires, Associate Professor of Bioarchaeology, and ...

Palermo’s most famous citizens are very, very old. Underneath Sicily’s capital city, known for mafioso and stately Baroque churches, preserved corpses fill five subterranean limestone corridors and ...

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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 ...

The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo display approximately 1,284 bodies — 163 of which are children. Researchers at Staffordshire University in England will use X-rays to examine the juvenile mummies.