Shroud recovers its mystery
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There seems to be conclusive scientific evidence that the Turin Shroud is a medieval fake. However, nobody has yet been able to produce a convincing explanation for how the fake was actually made. Furthermore, it is important to realize that carbon dating is not as reliable as its quoted margins of error seem to indicate. It is possible to argue that the presence of a bioplastic coating may have made the carbon dating of the Turin Shroud very inaccurate. This does not mean that the shroud is actually 1,300 years older than scientists generally assume, but does mean that new testing methods need to be developed.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1998
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A movie murder mystery
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American Thomas Edison and France's Lumiere brothers are both credited with the invention of moving pictures but some believe that the real inventor of the cinema was another Frenchman, Louis Aime Augustin Le Prince. Le Prince was preparing to go public with his invention when he boarded a train in Dijon, France, on Sep. 30, 1890, and was never seen again. Le Prince had filed his first American moving picture patent application in Nov. 1886 whereas Edison did not apply for his first moving picture patents until 1891. Le Prince's son Adolphe was found dead in Jul. 1901 after having taken legal action.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1999
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The mystery of the pits
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The ancient Shang civilization of north China did not sacrifice humans, unlike their counterparts in the Chengdu plain, according to archaeological discoveries. The pits excavated in Anyang held the remains of 1,500 human sacrificial victims, but the pits discovered 40 kilometres away from Chengdu in Sanxingdui held only animal remains, together with deliberately broken fragments of gold, jades and bronzes. Bronzed heads appear to have been deliberately cut to represent beheaded humans. The pits are believed to date from the 12th or 13th centuries BC.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1996
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