Quickie: Leonardo DaVinci’s Workshop Found?

I like stories where something is hidden in plain sight for years, uncovered through investigative guesswork. This sounds like one of those stories, though it’s authenticity is still in doubt:

It seems like the stuff of a mystical thriller, with army boots clicking on one side of a wall and robed monks shuffling in sandals on the other: For years, it seems, the possible importance of the frescoes was obscured by a simple wall separating the military institute from a monastery. On one side of the wall, a fresco of three birds hovers over the harsh fluorescent light of an emergency exit at the Institute for Military Geography. On the other side, a larger, ruined fresco sits at the foot of a Renaissance staircase in a 14th-century monastery. All it took to connect the two was observation, said Roberto Manes-calchi, 51, a cartographer at the military institute. “It was always here,” he said, “all we had to do was look.”

Via SciTech Daily, sorta.