Da Vinci’s secret lab & workshop was found, hidden behind a bricked-up wall!
:eek: 
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=599962
Paintings on the walls confirm it as his.
I wonder if he bricked up the wall to hide his secret laboratory from his sister, Dee-Dee Da Vinci?
No word yet on his 1650 Style Death Ray.
Any word on the macchina dell’oro?
Ah, it’s old news. I learned all about da Vinci’s secret laboratory in that documentary about him a few years ago, Hudson Hawk.
Seriously, this is very cool. Thanks for the link. From my American-experience perspective it’s hard to imagine a room hidden away for 500 years. :eek: I hope they find more than just the frescos. Any hope for notes?
Wow, dude!
Did they find a 1500’s death ray?
No, but we’ve only been there once. For about 20 minutes.
Perhaps in the monastary’s library, but it ain’t too likely.
No kidding. Our country isn’t even 300 years old, let alone having any buildings here that even approach 500 years old. And still, his room’s been bricked up for five centuries.
It is amazing that nobody wondered “what’s on the other side of this wall?” for so long.
The first thing I thought of was how fortunate that a fire, WW II bomb or the like didn’t destroy this before it was rediscovered.
What a find!
nitpick: Acoma pueblo, which still exists, was visited by Coronado in 1540 AD. There aren’t any bricked-up laboratories there, AFAIK, but who knows for sure?
Nothing to do with Da Vinci, per se. But here in Western Canada, we consider a building that is 80 years old to be OLD. I was in Mexico over Christmas and I went to a party on New Year’s Eve at the home of a 102 year old woman whose home was about 400 years old. 400 Years!! I think I’d like to be the first person to walk through a 500-year-old secret laboratory, especially considering its distinguished previous occupant.
I wonder why he felt the need for a secret laboratory . . . was he drawing porno?
I haven’t read it but doesn’t the DaVinci code say
“Be sure to eat your Ovaltine”?
They gonna let Geraldo open it up?
Da Vinci drew some brillant anatomical sketches, & dissecting dead human bodies was highly illegal.
Well, it was mainly secret from Mom, Dad and Didi.
Nicholas Cage certainly knew about it, though.