Because they give themselves." All the exhumations are taking place in Florence's Medici chapel, which simply bellows the family's importance. The tombs of Lorenzo and Giuliano de Medici are ...

The tomb of a four-year-old heir of the Medicis ... The team is working in the Medici Chapels at Michelangelo's church of San Lorenzo in Florence where they aim to exhume 49 bodies of the Medici ...

He and his colleagues discovered a trapdoor hidden beneath a wardrobe off to the side of the New Sacristy, where the tombs Michelangelo created for members of the powerful Medici family line the ...

He and his colleagues discovered a trapdoor hidden beneath a wardrobe off to the side of the New Sacristy, where the tombs Michelangelo created for members of the powerful Medici family line the ...

Next month, that will change. By Jason Horowitz Reported from a room under the Medici tombs in Florence The narrow, arched room below the Medici Chapels Museum in Florence has some suspiciously ...

Michelangelo worked on the sculptures on display of the New Sacristy, the chamber of the chapel holding tombs of the Medici family. Photograph By Joe Dunckley / Alamy Dal Poggetto concluded that ...

Their book puts the skulduggery of Medici’s operation—looting archaeological sites, tomb robbing in the dead of night, selling antiquities with a wink and a nod—on full display ...

Italian researchers opened the tomb of Giovanni dalle Bande Nere ... Giovanni was born in 1498 into the wealthy and influential Medici family, a lineage that produced three Popes and two regent ...