Scientists hope to crack Da Vinci code

Italian scientists are seeking to exhume the body of Leonardo da Vinci to conduct carbon and DNA testing.

Italian scientists are seeking to exhume the body of Leonardo da Vinci to conduct carbon and DNA testing.

If the skull is intact, the scientists can go to the heart of a question that has fascinated scholars and the public for centuries: the identity of the Mona Lisa.

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