Experts Reconstruct Leonardo Fingerprint
December 1, 2006
This undated photo released by the University of Chieti, Italy, on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006, shows fingerprints on a paper believed to be handled by Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci. Anthropologists said they have pieced together Leonardo da Vinci's left index fingerprint _ a discovery that could help shed light on such thing as the food the artist ate and whether his mother was of Arabic origin. The three-year research was based on a first core of professional quality photographs of about 200 fingerprints -- most of them partial -- taken from about 52 papers handled by Leonardo in his life. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Piero Lucco, Chieti University)
(AP) -- Anthropologists said they have pieced together Leonardo da Vinci's left index fingerprint - a discovery that could help provide information on such matters as the food the artist ate and whether his mother was of Arabic origin.
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