The Leonardo DNA Project, launched in 2016, aims to recover Leonardo’s Y chromosome and reconstruct his genetic profile. More ...

The results verify the continuity of the Da Vinci male lineage back to at least the 15th generation, more than 500 years ...

For more than five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor, known for ...

and possibly even aspects of his health and causes of death.' The new Italian-language book, 'Genìa Da Vinci. Genealogy and Genetics for Leonardo's DNA', is 'one of the most advanced ...

Leonardo da Vinci was the illegitimate son of a notary and a woman whose identity remains shrouded in mystery. He died in ...

This confirms the genetic continuity of the male line of the da Vinci family, at least since the 15th generation.

A study published in the book Genìa Da Vinci revealed that Leonardo da Vinci has at least six living male descendants who ...

Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci were all in Rome at the same time. Pope Julius II wanted to restore the Eternal ...

Helmed by Ron Howard, the film follows the plot of Robert Langdon, a symbologist, who, upon the mysterious death of the curator of the Louvre ... Pointing at the iconography of Leonardo Da Vinci's ...

Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo are two of the world ... Michelangelo downplayed Raphael’s achievements after the artists’ death, possibly from too much sex, claiming that “everything ...

Tributes have been flooding in following the death of TV presenter and former BBC executive Alan Yentob, who has died at the ...