Popular Mechanics reports that "Archaeologists Followed a Sketch by Leonardo da Vinci. It Led to Secret Tunnels Under an Ancient Castle." The gist of the story is as follows: In the 1400s, the duke of Milan, Francesco Sforza, reconstructed an ancient site which became Sforza Castle. In 1494, his successor, Ludovico Sforza, hired Leonardo da Vinci to create art for the castle. As part of that effort, Da Vinci documented a tunnel system underneath the castle. Relying on those drawings, a team which included experts from Polytechnic University of Milan, Codevintec, and Sforza Castel employed ground-penetrating radar and laser scanning and "discovered not only that the tunnels Leonardo alluded to in his drawings existed, but that they may only be a small piece of an intricate system weaving throughout the site."
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