For thousands of years, different cultures across continents have successfully preserved bodies of their ancestors.
In Christian tradition, bodies of saints were preserved and venerated.
In modern times, mummification has become essential for studying and teaching anatomy to medical students.
Various methods have been used to preserve dead bodies.
Many of the techniques used to preserve bodies have been lost.
Yet, the exact reason why her body was so completely preserved is lost.
Which brings us to Girolamo Segatos methods which is also surrounded by thick mystery.
Girolamo Segato was an Italian naturalist and cartographer.
He was born in 1792 in the Carthusian monastery of Vedana, in Northern Italy.
A perfectly preserved young female breast.
Signor Sigato possessed a wonderful art, unique, and unknown to all the world besides.
Mott wrote that Segators demands were too exorbitant to be complied with.
Dejected, Mott returned to the US.
Segator lies buried in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence.
Some of his petrified fossils are now at the Museum of the Department of Anatomy in Florence.
References:# Lippi and Weber, Between horrid and science.
Girolamo Segatos strange anatomy,Journal of Morphological Sciences
