An expert has claimed to have unravelled the mystery behind the world-famous Mona Lisa painting - saying the model was a man and Leonardo da Vinci's lover.
Taking inspiration from Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, a US startup has fused a USB flash drive with a ‘Cryptex’ device, a metal cylinder that can only be opened by setting the correct combination on a rotating barrel.
I have been a fan of Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince since their "Templar Revelation" came out many years ago and I have been happy to follow their work which has been made more famous and notable since "The DaVinci Code".
Here is a short piece by them looking at the Shroud of Turin and their argument (convincing to me) that daVinci's "The Saviour of the World" features the same model as the shroud, suggesting that either deVinci created both, or that he used the shroud as a model.
