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Dario Piombino-Mascali
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Dario Piombino-Mascali (born September 16, 1977) is an Italian anthropologist, bioarchaeologist and writer. He serves as a mummy studies specialist at the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman, held within the European Academy of Bolzano (EURAC) Italy. Piombino-Mascali is coordinator of the “Sicily Mummy Project”, aimed at investigating the human mummified remains stored in several crypts and churches of Sicily. He is credited with having studied and revealed the secret embalming formula of Professor Alfredo Salafia, a noted Sicilian taxidermist who preserved, amongst others, the body of little Rosalia Lombardo, also known as the “Sleeping Beauty” of Palermo Education Piombino-Mascali attended courses of Archaeology, Anthropology and Paleopathology at the Universities of Leicester and Pisa, where he was awarded a PhD in Paleoanthropology and Pathocoenosis in 2007 Work Piombino-Mascali resides in Bolzano, where he also cooperates with the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology. He is involved in several research activities, including the German and the Vatican Mummy Projects Awards Since 2008 he was awarded an honorary membership by the American Society of Embalmers, for his studies on historical embalming in Modern Age Europe. Dario Piombino-Mascali is a grantee of the National Geographic Society. Published work Dario Piombino-Mascali, 2009. Il Maestro del Sonno Eterno. Foreword by Arthur C. Aufderheide, Preface by Albert R. Zink (in Italian). La Zisa, Palermo. 
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