The mummified body of two-year-old Rosalia Lombardo, also called "The sleeping beauty.” She died of pneumonia in 1920, and her distraught father had her embalmed. But here is the weirdest thing, In a 2009 National Geographic documentary, they found her eyelids moving and blue eyes shining in the dark. But how is this possible after being mummified for over a hundred years? (Time-lapse footage is here.) bit.ly/3wEGEJP
The mummified body of two-year-old Rosalia Lombardo, also called "The sleeping beauty.” She died of pneumonia in 1920, and her distraught father had her embalmed. But here is the weirdest thing, In a 2009 National Geographic documentary, they found her eyelids moving and blue eyes shining in the dark. But how is this possible after being mummified for over a hundred years? (Time-lapse footage is here.) bit.ly/3wEGEJP
Then: Horse-drawn traffic clip-clops past St Andrew's Cathedral, Town Hall, and excavations for the construction of the Queen Victoria Building. The QVB would open five years later on 21 July 1898.
Now: Light rail, increased greenery, the occasional bicycle, widened pedestrian access, and opportunities to just sit and chat, occupy George St alongside three of Sydney's finest buildings.
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