Today in History for Jan. 8: In 1324, explorer Marco Polo died at age 70. In 1438, the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches met at the Council of Ferrara-Florence in an effort to form an alliance that ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s 'Mona Lisa' had been missing for more than 24 hours before anybody at the Louvre even noticed.

500-year-old puzzle- Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man is one of the most analysed drawings of history, yet scholars struggled to decode the precise proportions he used for the arms and legs. The ...

DETR0IT - You can immerse yourself in the mind of Leonardo da Vinci at a new exhibition coming to Michigan featuring his inventions. “Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion” is coming to the Michigan ...

Fantastic machines based on sketches by Leonardo da Vinci that were years ahead of their times — including a bicycle, machine gun, helicopter, and even a robot — are coming to the Motor City.

A groundbreaking project is piecing together Leonardo da Vinci’s genetic profile by tracing his lineage across 21 generations and comparing DNA from living descendants with remains in a Da Vinci ...

DEARBORN, MI - A world renowned Leonardo da Vinci exhibition is coming to Michigan for a limited time featuring both his art and his inventions. The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn will unveil, “Da ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists are trying to sequence the DNA of Leonardo da Vinci to identify if the remains at his interment site really are his. The project began ...

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A London-based dentist may have cracked a centuries-old mathematics puzzle hidden in one of the most famous anatomical drawings in the world—Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. This discovery suggests ...

A flying machine designed by Leonardo da Vinci may have been functional and much quieter than modern drone designs. Rajat Mittal at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and his colleagues have found ...

“It’s been wonderful to have the old dog learn some new tricks,” said Ken Burns, now in his fifth decade as a filmmaker, speaking about his first non-American documentary subject. It’s also the ...