Are they Michelanglo’s prints or not?

Forensics technology has come a long way if it can prove that a 500 year old fingerprint belonged to Renaissance artist and sculptor Michelangelo.

The Association of Mature American Citizens reports that experts at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum spotted what could be his thumbprint on a small, wax figurine—a prototype for what would have been a life-size marble statue, one of many to adorn the elaborate tomb of Pope Julius II.

A senior curator at the museum called it “an exciting prospect that one of Michelangelo’s prints could have survived in the wax.

Such marks would suggest the physical presence of the creative process of an artist.”