By
Live Science Staff
14 December 2010
Like a chapter straight out of the popular book "The Da Vinci Code," art historians have found microscopic codes hidden within the eye of the charmingly mystifying painting. More than 500 years old, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece has been viewed firsthand by a countless number of people. But it wasn't until magnified, high resolution images of the painting were studied by members of Italy's National Committee for Cultural Heritage that the codes were discovered, The Telegraph reports.
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