The Health, Development and Social Identity of Children Afforded Mummification in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily

The second of our public lectures will be taking place on Wednesday 5 February 2025 at 7.45 am (EST). The event will be hosted by the...

The team have been very busy working on various elements of the Juvenile Mummy Project. A visitor leaflet about the non-adult mummies in...

The first of our public lectures will be taking place on Thursday 26th September at 1.15pm (BST) at the Duckworth Laboratory at the...

In September 2022, Dr Kirsty Squires and Dr Dario Piombino-Mascali spoke to 105 visitors to the Capuchin Catacombs to gain an insight...

It was a banner year for bioarchaeology at the AABA, with multiple panels everyday devoted to longstanding questions in bioarchaeology....

From 19th-23rd September 2022, Kirsty (PI) and Dario (Co-I) returned to the Capuchin Catacombs to conclude data collection for the...

Our latest blog post brings some very exciting news. We are delighted to announce that Dr Katherine Van Schaik will be joining the...

Since our previous post, the team have been very busy reviewing the radiographs obtained from our fieldwork in January 2022. As we come...

As we come to the end of the fourth month of the Juvenile Mummy Project, the team are busy examining radiographs and producing materials...

After much anticipation, on Tuesday 11th January 2022, data collection and documentation of the juvenile mummies in the Capuchin...

While things have been rather quiet on the blog front as of late, the team have been busy behind the scenes planning upcoming fieldwork....

Welcome to the webpage and blog for the research project: The Health, Development and Social Identity of Children Afforded Mummification...