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'Sleeping Beauty' mummy appears to blink
short by Sanira Mediratta / on Tuesday, 18 April, 2017
The mummy of a two-year-old Italian girl, Rosalia Lombardo who died of pneumonia in 1920, appears to moves her eyelids. Dubbed the 'sleeping beauty', the mummy is placed in catacombs in Sicily, Italy, and is known as one of the world's best preserved mummies. It was later discovered that the blinking was an illusion produced by light passing through windows.
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