World News - A number of archaeologists in Florence has found a skull believed to be relics of someone who is immortalized in the painting 'Mona Lisa', a masterpiece painted by Leonardo Da Vinci 500 years ago.
Excavations carried out at the beginning of this month in what was formerly a convent of Saint Ursula, precisely at the tomb of Lisa Gherardini - the wife of a rich silk merchant Francesco del Gioncondo - after his death in July 1542 at the age of 63 years.
The tomb contained the bones of an adult female that is some parts of the skull and hip bones had been removed, said Giorgio Gruppioni coordinator of the excavation.
"The skull and hip bones have been damaged by the weight of the soil," he said, also a professor of archeology at the University of Bologna.
Some parts of the skull and pelvic bone must first be removed before the archaeologists can determine the sex of the bones, he said.
When they find a skull, a group of scientists that they can re-face the possibility of women, compared with a portrait of the famous painting Mona Lisa's identity and uncover the mystery over several centuries.
That historians will compare the DNA with two children who were buried in the church Santissima Annunziata, Firenze, to prove his identity, though some experts say the last portrait of Da Vinci is an illustration of some other face.
Da Vinci's masterpieces hanging behind bulletproof glass in the Louvre museum in Paris.
Most historians agree that women with a smile full of mystery which is reflected in the painting is a Del Giocondo, who became a nun after her husband's death.
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