The roman mummy of Grottarossa

The Grottarossa mummy is only the second ever to have been discovered in Rome. According to Stefano Infessura (1723), the first Roman mummy — of a 12- or 13-year old girl — was found in 1485 in a grave near the via Appia about five miles from the city. After its removal, it was exhibited in the Palazzo dei Conservatori near the Capitol in Rome, but Pope Innocent VIII, was afraid of an outburst of popular fanaticism, and ordered it to be reburied at a secret site outside the Porta Pinciana, so that all knowledge of its precise whereabouts was lost.