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.

In 1920, a young girl named Rosalia Lombardo died of pneumonia caused by the Spanish Flu, just one week before her second birthday. Now, she lies in the Capuchin Catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, encased ...

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 ...

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 ...

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