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One of the greatest art heists of our time was actually a data hack [US]

Edit Ars Technica 11 Mar 2016
Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles called their work The Other Nefertiti and released their data file to world ... But immediately, experts raised questions about the scan—it was just too high quality for a Kinect ... In the 1350s BCE, her husband Pharaoh Akhenaten moved the royal palace from Thebes to the newly built city of Akhetaten (now Amarna) ... Comments ....

One of the greatest art heists of our time was actually a data hack

Edit Ars Technica 11 Mar 2016
(credit. Nefertiti Hack) ... Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles called their work The Other Nefertiti and released their data file to world ... A 4K render of the Nefertiti Hack data ... In the 1350s BCE, her husband Pharaoh Akhenaten moved the royal palace from Thebes to the newly built city of Akhetaten (now Amarna) ... Read 8 remaining paragraphs . Comments ....

The surprisingly ancient origins of the slang word ‘thug’

Edit Business Insider 29 Apr 2015
In all that, the history of "thug" goes back not just to the hip-hop scene of the 1990s, to Tupac Shakur and ; it goes back to India—to the India, specifically, of the 1350s. "Thug" comes from the Hindi thuggee or tuggee (pronounced "toog-gee" or "toog"); it is derived from the word ठग, or ṭhag, which means "deceiver" or "thief" or "swindler." ... They worked, in general, by joining travelers, gaining their trust ... Given all that ... Loading....

An Authentic 1st Century Jerusalem Burial Shroud

Edit Huffington Post 19 Mar 2015
CNN focused on the question of the authenticity of the controversial "Shroud of Turin," in the first episode of its new pre-Easter series "Finding Jesus." Those challenging the authenticity of this ancient relic point to carbon dating tests done at three independent labs in 1988 that dated samples of its cloth to AD 1260-1390, which coincides with the first appearance of the shroud in France in the 1350s ... It was June 14, 2000 ... ....

Magna Carta – 800 years on

Edit The Guardian 02 Jan 2015
Nelson Mandela appealed to it; the US founding fathers drew on it; Charles I’s opponents cherished it. David Carpenter considers the huge significance of the 13th-century document that asserted a fundamental principle – the rule of law. On the dotted line. King John signing Magna Carta at Runnymeade 15 June 1215. Photograph ... David Carpenter ... Facebook ... In the 1350s, legislation defined the “no free man” as “no man of whatever condition” ... ....

The Kiss of love and death

Edit The Hindu 11 Nov 2014
At first I thought this was a joke, it had a very unreal feel to it till I saw the elaborate setup with cameras and lighting and some of the girls even had makeup assistants to boot ... She and her fiancée locked their arms around each other in great displays of passion ... The madrassa was established in the 1350s and also overlooks the lake which was dug during Allauddin Khilji’s reign and was named after him – Hauz-e-Ilai....

Turin shroud was made for medieval Easter ritual, historian says

Edit The Guardian 23 Oct 2014
Charles Freeman believes relic venerated as Jesus Christ’s burial cloth dates from 14th century and was used as a prop. The Turin shroud, revered by some as the burial cloth of Jesus, dates from the middle ages, historian says. Photograph. Antonio Calanni/AP ... Freeman’s idea was shored up by his study of the earliest illustration of the shroud – on a pilgrim badge of the 1350s found in the Seine in 1855 ... Sign up for the Guardian Today ... ....

Ebola and Other Future Perstilence -- How to Avoid Them

Edit Huffington Post 03 Sep 2014
From what we can now see from the current Ebola outbreak it is unlikely to be contained in the foreseeable future. Already 1500 people have died in the West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria and Senegal ... The worst is yet to be revealed. How much further afield the virus will spread is anybody's guess ... Let's find ways to mitigate another outbreak, for it maybe as bad as the Black Plague of 1350s Europe....

Q&A;: Good side of the Black Death

Edit The State 23 Jun 2014
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Sharon DeWitte, a bioarchaeology professor at the University of South Carolina, spends her summers in the storage room of a London museum, examining bones of people who died in the mid-1350s of bubonic plague. It was a terrifying disease that swept across Europe, killing entire villages and reducing some cities' population by half. It struck quickly ... Their carcasses would be stacked into burial pits by nightfall ... Q ... A ... Q ... ....

Did the Black Death have a silver lining?

Edit The News & Observer 23 Jun 2014
Sharon DeWitte, 38, is a bioarchaeology professor at the University of South Carolina who commutes to work from Winston-Salem, where her husband, Eric Jones, is an archaeologist at Wake Forest. Where does she spend her summers? In the storage room of a London museum, carefully examining bones of people who died in the mid-1350s of bubonic plague ... It struck quickly ... Their carcasses would be stacked into burial pits by nightfall ... Q ... A ... Q ... A ... ....
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