Experts at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London have uncovered what may be Michelangelo’s fingerprint on a wax sculpture attributed to the Renaissance artist. Staff unveiled the find in the first episode of the new season of “Secrets of the Museum,” a BBC Two documentary series about the V&A.

As David Sanderson reports for the London Times, conservators made the discovery after moving the statue, titled A Slave (circa 1516–19), from an upstairs gallery to colder underground storage while the museum was closed during the Covid-19 pandemic.