The Mona Lisa Code: Numbers and Letters Revealed in Eyes [PHOTO]

The Daily Mail has reported that new images of the Mona Lisa may reveal secret clues left behind by Leonardo Da Vinci. Numbers and letters, seen only under a microscope or magnifying glass, may hold the key to a message from beyond the grave of this legendary painter.

Read on to learn more about these strange new clues left behind by Da Vinci when he painted the Mona Lisa hundreds of years ago.

Mona Lisa Clues Revealed In Eyes: Shades Of Da Vinci Code

The Daily Mail web site points out that in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, the author paints a story of mystery and intrigue linking the Mona Lisa and the Holy Grail. The National Committee for Cultural Heritage in Italy first discovered the mysterious symbols painted in the dark park of Mona Lisa's eyes says the tiny print is impossible to see with the "naked eye...but with a magnifying glass, they can clearly be seen."

In the right eye of the Mona Lisa, the letters 'LV' appear to be printed, the Italian NCCH said. In the left eye, there may be a 'B' or a 'CE' inscribed. The historians say either an 'L' and a '2' together, or the number 72, can also be seen.

New Mona Lisa Clues Raise New Questions

The committee says the marks are definitely "not a mistake" and were intentionally made by Leonardo Da Vinci. Why Leonardo Da Vinci added the mysterious code to the Mona Lisa is unknown, and the mystery may never be solved without the artist here to explain himself.

For more on Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, including his somewhat eccentric habit of carrying the now-priceless painting with him wherever he went in the years before his death, visit the Daily Mail.

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The Daily Mail