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    Skeleton find in Italy could unlock mysteries of the Mona Lisa

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    London, July 18 (ANI): Archeologists have found a skeleton buried beneath the floor of a convent in Florence, Italy, and they believe it belonged to the model who posed for Leonardo’s da Vinci’s mysterious masterpiece - the Mona Lisa.

    The medieval Convent of Saint Ursula in Florence was the…