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Plaster casts of people who died in Pompeii, Italy, after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
Credit: Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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Now There is a new examinations of the casts thanks to our new technology, very common used in medical purpose to make a 3D model of the internal organ, called CT scan, so we can find new data about them.
“We’re the antidote to an unscientific approach,” said Estelle Lazer, an Australian forensic anthropologist who has researched Pompeian bones for 30 years, publishing a study, “Resurrecting Pompeii,” in 2009.
The data has appealed many data in contrast to the previous belief explaining the casts.
For example, one cast, found in the Forum in 1963, has been known as the “pregnant woman” because of the protuberance of the belly. The CT scan revealed the person was probably not pregnant, and may not have been a woman.
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Plaster casts at a field hospital in Pompeii, where an array of specialists
used computerized tomography scanners late last month.
Credit: Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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The data has appealed many data in contrast to the previous belief explaining the casts.
For example, one cast, found in the Forum in 1963, has been known as the “pregnant woman” because of the protuberance of the belly. The CT scan revealed the person was probably not pregnant, and may not have been a woman.
I think that it is great to have a new tool to revise the previous explanation about history, so you can get the more accurate understanding our own becoming.
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My question is:
Which history event can interest you most or want a new information?
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Reference
Elisabetta Povoledo. (2015, October 5). Scientists Hope to Learn How Pompeians Lived, Before the Big Day. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/world/europe/scientists-hope-to-learn-how-pompeians-lived-before-the-big-day.html?_r=0
If I have time machine or something that can take me back to the past, I would like to exactly see by my own eyes that the history in the textbook I've ever read are correct?
ReplyDeleteHow did the Egyptians truly made the mummy and did they curse anything during mummy production?
How the king Rama8 in Thailand passed away? I'm curious about it pretty much, but I have to let it gooo. Just curious
How are the three kingdoms in China, that is a classic novel in the world, how are their appearances? They're actually the same as the story in the books?
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Punn reminds me that when I was young, and not so young, I loved reading about the ancient Egyptians. I think the fascination was that they were so very different and so old.
DeleteAnd there is a cool novel, which starts in ancient Egypt, or more accurately with an archaeological dig in modern (late 1800s) Egypt to rediscover the past. It uncovers a mummy, which might sound a bit weird, but in The Mummy, author Anne Rice has written a novel, that mixes some ancient history (not sure how reliable), with a great story, and a cool mummy. It was Punn's mention of curses that made me think of this - I don't believe in them, but they can still make for good literature.
One of juniors who got the third prize of physic Olympic in Thailand told me that the time machine could be produced. As we know, mass cannot appear (it just change into other forms). It is composed of neutron, electron and proton, which is formed together with the time, so it should have the opposite side: anti- of them for balancing. If the scientist can find these things, the opportunity of time machine should higher.
ReplyDeleteDifferent to my physics teacher who told me that the velocity of time machine should be very fast as the light velocity (3 x 10^8 m/s) which our body will be burned as dust if we transport in that status.
By the way, someone told me that if there is a time machine in the future, we should know because they must back to our period too.
Physicist David Deutsch, at Cambridge Uni,, proposes a different way in which time travel is at least theoretically possible, sort of. It's in his book The Fabric of Reality (1998). It's a fun read, but I can't summarize the relevant ideas in a short comment.
DeleteMy first thought on seeing the image was that it was an installation art work. Is that the case, do you know?
ReplyDeleteIn the past, I used to amaze at the great pyramid of Giza in Egypt, one of seven wonders of the ancient world, and how to construct it a lot because at that time there is no advanced technology like today’s ,and the pyramid is a very big building.
ReplyDeleteLuckily, nowadays there is a group of scientific experts that found that there are traces of ducts inside the pyramid. They assumes the workers used water to transport a million blocks of rock by tying up with balloons made of sheep leather around them in order to make them float and move easily.
So, the advanced innovation in the present helps us reveal several secret of history amazingly.