Tomorrow, Tuesday, February 15, the mummiologi Albert Zink and Dario Piombino-Mascali EURAC Institute for Mummies and the Iceman, will be guests of the television program that airs Unomattina Rai 1. The two scholars, engaged for years in a careful study of mummies through non-invasive techniques, are expected with regard to new developments in scientific discovery of the mummified remains. In particular, Dario Piombino Mascali talk about the research he conducted and contained in the book "The Master of Eternal Sleep," published by La Zisa and already in its second edition.
THE BOOK: What Rosalia Lombardo holds secrets, the 'Sleeping Beauty' of the Catacombs of Palermo, rightly considered the most beautiful mummy in the world? What alchemy allowed perfect preservation of a child of two years, almost a century after his death? Who was responsible? These questions remained unresolved for a long time, are now finally answered in this essay by anthropologist Dario Piombino-Mascali. A fascinating reconstruction of the story that binds the little Rosalia Lombardo Alfredo Salafia, embalmer Palermo edged yet veiled in legend. A fascinating journey, which the author takes the reader by the hand and taking leads into the heart of a story never revealed first, if not through the fragments and contradictions.
Dario Piombino-Mascarenhas, born in Messina in 1977, is a researcher at the European Academy (EURAC) in Bolzano, where he coordinates the project "Mummies Sicilian." Scholarships from the National Geographic Society, was recently awarded the title of honorary member of the American Society of Embalmers. Works closely with the South Tyrol Archaeological Museum, the Vatican Museums and the Museums Reiss-Enghelhorn for the scientific study of human mummies.
THE BOOK: What Rosalia Lombardo holds secrets, the 'Sleeping Beauty' of the Catacombs of Palermo, rightly considered the most beautiful mummy in the world? What alchemy allowed perfect preservation of a child of two years, almost a century after his death? Who was responsible? These questions remained unresolved for a long time, are now finally answered in this essay by anthropologist Dario Piombino-Mascali. A fascinating reconstruction of the story that binds the little Rosalia Lombardo Alfredo Salafia, embalmer Palermo edged yet veiled in legend. A fascinating journey, which the author takes the reader by the hand and taking leads into the heart of a story never revealed first, if not through the fragments and contradictions.
Dario Piombino-Mascarenhas, born in Messina in 1977, is a researcher at the European Academy (EURAC) in Bolzano, where he coordinates the project "Mummies Sicilian." Scholarships from the National Geographic Society, was recently awarded the title of honorary member of the American Society of Embalmers. Works closely with the South Tyrol Archaeological Museum, the Vatican Museums and the Museums Reiss-Enghelhorn for the scientific study of human mummies.
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