Dec 2, 2010

UCSD Guardian - "National Geographic Team Continues Mongolia Expedition"

The student-run newspaper's Laira Martin reports on a research team from UCSD combining forces with National Geographic to work on a noninvasive archaeological search for [Genghis] Khan’s tomb near this birthplace in Khentii Aimag, in Mongolia’s Valley of the Khans, led by CISA3 research scientist Albert Lin.


Nov 29, 2010

San Diego Business Journal - "Connecting with the Past and the Present"

Weekly newspaper writer Steve Sinovic reports on a collaboration between a research team based in Calit2's CISA3 center and local San Diego firm Digitaria on the National Geographic-sponsored 'Field Expedition: Mongolia' project.


Nov 29, 2010

UCSD Guardian - "Iron Men"

UCSD Guardian reporter Neda Salamat features CISA3 associate director and IGERT co-PI archaeologist Thomas Levy in her story on Levy's work to uncover an early Biblical kingdom of Edom.


Nov 23, 2010

MSNBC - "Return to King Solomon's Mines"

Alan Boyle reports on research being conducted by CISA3 and IGERT-TEECH archaeologist Thomas Levy that has turned up ancient copper-smelting equipment and a huge ancient cemetery, as well as carbon-dating samples that suggest the site was at its peak during the reign of the Biblical King Solomon.


Nov 23, 2010

San Diego News Room - "UCSD professor reveals evidence about King Solomon's mines"

Claire Harlin reports on archaeologist Tom Levy's research, which is the focus of a new NOVA/National Geographic documentary. Levy discovered thousands of tons of slag (a by-product of smelting ore) at a site in Jordan, suggesting that large-scale copper production took place in the 10th century BCE, i.e., during the approximate time period of the Biblical stories of David and Solomon.


Nov 18, 2010

Toscana Tuttieventi - "A Firenze i disegni mai visti di Leonardo"

IGERT-TEECH co-PI Maurizio Seracini is highlighted in a report about a Florens 2010 event 'In Search of Leonardo.'


Nov 18, 2010

Arcadia Art - "Disegni di Leonardo da Vinci in Anteprima Mondiale a Firenze"

The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci in a world premiere exhibition in Florence mentions the presentation by CISA director Maurizio Seracini.


Nov 17, 2010

Daily Telegraph (UK) - "Team using modern technology in attempt to uncover ancient da Vinci masterpiece"

This article by Nick Squires in the UK newspaper profiles CISA3 director Maurizio Seracini, co-PI on the NSF IGERT project. A team of art detectives led by Seracini is developing cutting-edge technology to try to uncover the fate of a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece.


Nov 17, 2010

ANSA (Italy) - "Leonardo, nuovi disegni inediti"

This article on the Italian news service ANSA is about CISA3 director Maurizio Seracini's discovery of previously unknown drawings by Leonardo da Vinci. (In Italian)


Nov 17, 2010

Corriere Fiorentino (Italy) - "Alla ricerca di Leonardo"

Ludovica Zarrilli writes in the newspaper about the appearance at the Florens 2010 festival of CISA3 director Maurizio Seracini, when he discussed the results of his 30-year search for a Leonardo da Vinci mural. (In Italian)


Nov 17, 2010

Corriere Fiorentino (Italy) - "Dentro il mister di Leonardo ta Anghiari, i Magi e il Codice"

Ludovica Zarrilli profiles the work of Maurizio Seracini on Leonardo da Vinci's Adoration of the Magi, providing 'precious information' in support of Seracini's search for another da Vinci masterpiece, the 'Battle of Anghiari' mural. (In Italian)


Nov 17, 2010

Firenze - "Docente, per ricerca su Leonardo mai un soldo dallo Stato"

The website of Florence runs a story by the ASCA national news agency in Italy about the press conference of CISA3 director and NSF IGERT co-PI Maurizio Seracini, noting that UCSD is searching for the roughly $2.5 million needed to complete the Battle of Anghiari project. (In Italian)


Nov 17, 2010

La Nazione (Italy) - "I disegni mai visti di Leonardo da Vinci"

According to the newspaper, at a meeting in the Palazzo Vecchio Hall of the 500, researcher Maurizio Seracini reported on his 30-year search for the Battle of Anghiari. (In Italian)


Nov 17, 2010

Il Giornale (Italy) - "Per ‘La battaglia di Anghiari’ di Leonardo servono 2.5 millioni di dollari"

The newspaper quotes CISA3 director Maurizio Seracini as telling a press conference in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence that it will cost roughly $2.5 million to complete the search for Leonardo da Vinci's Battle of Anghiari mural. (In Italian)


Nov 17, 2010

Corriere Fiorentino (Italy) - "Leonardo e li dietro e lo troveremo"

The leading newspaper in Florence quotes National Geographic VP Terry Garcia as saying that 'Leonardo is underneath there and we will find him.' He was speaking at a press conference with CISA3 director and NSF IGERT-TEECH co-PI Maurizio Seracini about the plan to re-launch the search for a lost da Vinci masterpiece. (In Italian)


2007 Archive

November 29 Il Sole 24 Ore
Battaglia di Anghiari: la caccia al capolavoro di Maurizio Seracini

November 22  El País (Spain)
Seracini, el único personaje real de 'El Código da Vinci', busca un 'leonardo'

November 17 AGI Agenzia Italia (Italy)
Arte: WSJ, ‘Battaglia di Anghiari’ tra le 7 meraviglie perdute

November 16 Chicago Daily Herald (US)
Many of history's most famous shipwrecks, relics are still lost


November 9 Wall Street Journal (US)
[click on interactive map, then on 'The Battle of Anghiari']
7 Missing Wonders

October 31 TF1 Television (France) Video Only
La bataille d'Anghiari de Léonard de Vinci retrouvée?

October 25 Washington Times (US)
High-tech search for da Vinci fresco

October 24 Wired News (US)
Neutron Beams Search for Da Vinci's Lost Masterpiece

ctober 23 La Repubblica (Italy)
Entro un anno la verità sull'affresco di Leonardo

October 23 La Nazione (Italy)
Al via la caccia all'Anghiari di Leonardo

October 22 Il Messaggero (Italy)
Battaglia di Anghiari, caccia nucleare all'affresco

October 22 AGNKronos (Italy)
Giorni contati per il mistero della 'Battaglia di Anghiari'

October 22 AGI News (Italy)
Battaglia Anghiari: Rutelli, Un Anno per Svelare Enigma

October 22 Associated Press (US)
Engineers to Search for Leonardo Fresco

October 22 Forbes (US)
Engineers to Search for Leonardo Fresco

October 22 Corriere della Sera (Italy)
Palazzo Vecchio, caccia al Leonardo sparito

October 10 Il Sole 24 Ore (Italy)
Sponsor in coda per il segreto di Leonardo

October 9 L'Espresso (Italy)
Neutroni per svelare Leonardo

October 9 La Repubblica (Italy)
Tecnologia militare segreta per scoprire Leonardo

September 22 Il Giornale (Italy)
«Battaglia di Anghiari»: saranno 4 gli sponsor

July 30 KGTV Channel 8 CBS (US)
Superimposed Last Supper Reveals New Figures

July 2 People Magazine
The Da Vinci Detective

June 12 These Days -- KPBS Radio
Art Detective Reveals Lost Da Vinci Fresco


June 11 InToscana.com (Italy)
Premiato in California l´esperto della "Battaglia di Anghiari"

June 8 Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)
Wer Leonardo sucht, der findet

May 19 La Nazione (Italy)
Battaglia di Anghiari’ Diciotto mesi per le risposte

May 11 La Nazione (Italy)
Così ritroverò la Battaglia

May 6 Il Sole (Italy)
Cercare la Battaglia

April 19 Currents (US)
Maurizio Seracini works to improve art conservation

March 23 La Nazione (Italy)
Palazzo Vecchio si prepara alla caccia tecnologica della «Battaglia di Anghiari»

March 22 InToscana.it (Italy)
Arte: riprenderà in estate la caccia alla Battaglia di Anghiari

March 22 Corriere della Sera (Italy)
Battaglia di Anghiari, la troveremo senza rompere il muro

March 14 L'Espresso (Italy)
Leonardo sotto scorta

March 12 UCSD Guardian (US)
'Renaissance Man' Fuses Culture, Science at New Center'

February 28 The San Diego Union-Tribune
He uses science in the pursuit of art

February 19 Herald Sun (Australia)
Expert Close to Cracking Da Vinci Code

February 9  New York Times
A Real-Life Mystery: The Hunt for the Lost Leonardo

February 12 Time Magazine
Cracking a Real-Life Da Vinci Code

February 1  The Independent (UK)
Da Vinci sleuth invited to find lost masterpiece

January 30  Reuters
Art sleuth looks for lost Da Vinci masterpiece

January 15 New York Times
Leonardo Quest to Resume

January 10  ANSA (Italy)
Battaglia di Anghiari: un giallo che affascina da 500 anni



2006 Archive

December 7  The Washington Times
Gift of the Magi

December 6  Reuters
Rare Da Vinci sketch displayed in Washington

November 2  The Florentine
An interview with Maurizio Seracini, the man behind the real Da Vinci mystery

October 3  La Nazione (Italy)
‘ Battaglia di Anghiari’, una ricerca che va conclusa

October 2 Time Magazine
A grand tour

October 1 Il Giornale dell’Arte (Italy)
Il tecnico: prima di decidere fare una vera «cartella clinica»

August 27 The Observer (UK)
Fresh start in lost Leonardo quest

August 28  Il Corriere della Sera (Italy)
Mantegna a Mantova, Leonardo a Tokio

May 29  United Press International
Hidden sketches in da Vinci piece revealed

May 27 The Times (UK)
Revealed: the Leonardo cover-up hidden by monks for 500 years

May 22 The Herald (Australia)
Da Vinci broken by the code

May 20 Channel 4 (UK)
The Da Vinci Detective

May 16  The Times (UK)
On the trail of the lost Leonardo

May 16  Anderson Cooper 360 CNN
Da Vinci Code character appears in flesh and blood

February 24 La Stampa (Italy)
L’Architetto Umanista Avrebbe Partecipato

February 6 This Week @ UCSD
Da Vinci Decoded

2005 Archive