Perhaps I should have saved this for Halloween, but
Researchers are searching for Lisa Gheradini, that who we usually call Mona Lisa. Excavations of a crypt at a nunery in Florence have revealed several skeletons, with video and news article postings of the project.
The team began digging up the convent’s new cement floor last year, after fresh documents confirmed that Gherardini, the wife of rich Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo, had lived in the convent after her husband died and was looked after by her two daughters, who were nuns.
She was eventually interred there.
Video and news article at:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-25/archaeologists-close-in-on-real-mona-lisa/4153160
