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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: An underground tunnel network long rumored thanks to drawings by Leonardo da Vinci under Milan’s Sforza Castle are proven to exist. Ground ...
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More than a millennium later, this puzzle unexpectedly resurfaced in the life of Leonardo da Vinci. In the late 15th century, da Vinci was commissioned to paint “The Last Supper” (1495-98) as a mural ...
Sketches in Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Forster I appear to show tunnels leading from the castle. Ground-penetrating radar appears to have found them, centuries later.