mona lisa

A group of scientists from Italy's National Committee for Cultural Heritage, a leading association of scientists and art historians, is seeking permission to open the tomb in which Leonardo da Vinci is believed to lie at Amboise castle, in the Loire valley, in a bid to reconstruct his face and disco

On 21 August 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, was stolen right off the wall of the Louvre, Paris. It was such an inconceivable crime, that the Mona Lisa wasn't even noticed missing until the following day.