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Rosalia Lombardo died of pneumonia in 1920, just before his second birthday. Her body, at the request grieved the loss of his father, was embalmed and kept in the Catacombs of the Capuchins in Palermo (Italy). Due to the special technique of embalming, the girl seemed not dead, but sleeping peacefully, because of what was popularly nicknamed "Sleeping Beauty". Even later, in '94, after the death of the body at Rosalie almost no trace of corruption. Secret embalmer kept in strict confidence and only five years ago was raskryt.

But the absence of corruption - is not the most surprising. Amazingly all that several times a day Rosalia seems opens and closes his eyes again. How can the "Sleeping Beauty" awakened after a 100-year sleep? Experts say that this is a simple, committed no mystical explanation. "It's just an optical illusion produced by the light incident on the face of the mummy from different angles at different times" - explained the superintendent of the catacombs Dario Piombino-Maskali.

He added that the girl's eyelids were never tightly closed, and thereby created the illusion of opening and closing the eyes, depending on the angle of incidence of sunlight.

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