Mona Lisa's bones?

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The most famous smile in history has just gotten a little less mysterious. Archaeologists recently unearthed what they think are the bones of Lisa Gherardini, who is thought by many to be the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. The skeleton was found in Florence, Italy, beneath the old convent where Gherardini died in 1542 at age 63. (She married in her teens and had five children but became a nun after her husband's death.) Leonardo started the Mona Lisa around 1503 and finished it in 1519. It hangs in Paris's Louvre museum, which estimates that 80...