Dec 14th 2010 By Emily Tan

While some people believe "The Da Vinci Code" is just fun-to-read fiction, it looks like there actually might be a real-life cryptic mystery in the Mona Lisa.
The National Committee for Cultural Heritage has revealed that there are
letters and symbols embedded in the eyes of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous muse, which Italian art experts discovered after magnifying high-resolution images. The right eye is said to have the letters "L" and "V," which could stand for the artist's name, but the right eye has a number of other letters that experts hope will clue everyone in on the true identity of the woman in the painting.
"In the left eye there are also symbols," art historian Silvano Vinceti said. "It is difficult to make them out, but they appear to be the letters C and E or B."
Although many have long thought that the model was Lisa Gherardini, a Florence merchant's wife; Vinceti claims that Leonardo painted the masterpiece in Milan.
Now we're just waiting for Scrabble, the Mona Lisa version, to hit the aisles.