Vanished from History
Unearthing Forgotten Narratives and Lost Legacies
Tick Tock users have recently found another crazy thing out there somehow 10 days are sort of canceled from world history the person who found it must have been really bored since the discovery happened when they scrolled their iPhone calendar to the 16th century so if you ever try to scroll your Apple calendar back to 1582 you'll notice a weird thing the month of October at first it seems alright when you zoom out of it it shows Days 1 to 31 but then you click and it takes 10 days out here's the explanation from Tick Tock users which seems to be pretty accurate in October 1582 there was a change from the old Julian calendar to the new Gregorian version that switch could create a little bit of chaos and mess with the lives of ordinary people so in order to have the calendar back in line with the seasons Pope Gregory XII deleted 10 days from the year 1582. so the day after October 4th 1582 was declared October 15th and this way the drift was reset right we found those 10 days if you're still bored and want to find more Curious things in the calendar you scroll even more and get to Year One there you'll see that somehow it has 24 months and all the months are doubled rumor has it it's nothing more than a simple glitch but hey if you know the answer let me know in the comments there are many things in the present we still can't explain but there are even more of them in the past we still know nothing about how ancient Egyptians built their pyramids there are no written records from that period And scientists are sure they had done that on purpose but a recent archaeological Discovery might shed some light at least on how they used to haul giant blocks of rock to such enormous distances researchers found a 4 500 year old ramp system in an alabaster Quarry in the Eastern desert it dates back to Pharaoh Khufu the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza and consisted of a central ramp and a pair of staircases with a large number of post holes the ancient Egyptians hauled a sled on which they put great blocks of alabaster tying ropes to the wooden posts they were able to pull the sled out of the Quarry up some very steep slopes still the construction material for the pyramids wasn't Alabaster it was granite a much harder and heavier mineral and the discovery of the amazing ramp system doesn't tell anything about how the ancient people were able to haul those great rocks up the much steeper slopes of the pyramids the world has changed dramatically over the centuries but there's one thing for sure that's been unchanged the love for food by the way scientists managed to find out some of the oldest examples of people's favorite food they inspected some of the ancient pottery and managed to find traces of best-loved food dating back to around 2000 BCE it all happened in Sicily and guess what that food was nah it wasn't pizza or pasta but olive oil but there's more researchers from Egypt discovered some bacteria-ridden and sort of lumpy substance in some ancient Pottery which turned out to be cheese now this bread is over 14 000 years old in fact the archaeologist who found it claims its 14 400 years old must be some tough crust on that one anyway there's an even more Curious detail about this ancient treat scientists say it predates the age of Agriculture by 4 000 years so people were Hunters back then they didn't so how come they baked bread Tobias Richter head of the excavation party and Jordan explains that these guys lived in a transitional period between hunting and agriculture they gathered wild cereals such as barley Ein corn and oat processed them and made food out of them that's how people later became more sedentary leading to the progress of cultivating the land eventually small steps make a big deal not only real archaeologists can discover something great kids can do that too a little girl going by the name of saga vanasek was playing in a lake in Sweden when she stepped on something hard she felt curious and pulled that object out of the water only to find it wasn't a stick like she thought initially but a very real sword Swedish scientists estimate that the item is at least 1 000 years old so it was forged several centuries before the Viking era Specialists say they were able to fetch a broach in the same area that was from around the same time they say that the place had been thought to be a burial site but this finding turned the theory upside down now the researchers think it was some kind of sacrificial ground because there were no signs of burial mounds around the place whatsoever well the truth is yet to be uncovered the antikythera mechanism is one of the most popular ancient technologies that boggles the minds of modern scientific Society its name comes from the place it was discovered a small island off the coast of Greece called antakithira in 1901 divers searching for sea sponges in the area unexpectedly found antique wreckage among other wondrous things there was a complex mechanism that made no sense to the lucky sponge gatherers the thing was seemingly incomplete and in very poor condition but even so its complexity dazzled scientists who studied it at first they had a hypothesis that it was an ancient computer dating back more than 2 200 years they dumped this idea as ridiculous but after 70 years other Scholars came to similar conclusions in the end scientists came out with a final statement the mechanism calculated and tracked Celestial time the term for that is an ornery despite its ancient Origins the people who created it were clearly much ahead of their time when researchers tried to replicate the Contraption in 2021 they were baffled by how much the thing could do still the question of who made it and how remains open to this day the famous Roman scholar Pliny the Elder was one of the first to describe a mind-boggling technological advance of the ancient Romans the so-called Roman concrete among other structures Romans used this type of concrete to build the pantheon as various sources describe it Roman concrete was three parts volcanic ash and one part line and not just any Ash at that they considered the best to be found where the modern city of patsali stands this kind of volcanic ash even has its name patelana the main difference between the Roman and modern concrete is that the ancient variety became only stronger when affected by seawater this allows structures built from it to withstand harsh elements and even survive for centuries underwater the modern kind is much more fragile Specialists say it can stand for about 50 years and saltwater makes it deteriorate even faster currently scientists and Engineers are looking into ways of Reviving Roman concrete technology not only because it's a lot more durable but because it has a much lighter toll on the environment you might ask what's so unusual about a stone hunt and you'll be correct in most cases but this one is something according to Danish archaeologist Christian cook Madsen the Hutt he and his team found near a glacier in southern Greenland shouldn't even be there he said they had been in the area before and didn't find anything of interest but when they dug up a little bit they uncovered a single dwelling it's very small and it's open to winds and chills from every side scientists can't explain why it's even there the Hut stands lonely literally in the middle of nowhere and people couldn't possibly live there all year round because it was simply too cold have any ideas to help the archaeologists
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Controversial Art Form
While we still have the chance to learn more about them, we'll never know the names of the first artists to paint on walls because they lived thousands of years ago. You can see some examples of their work below. A new mural by Banksy was discovered in London, replacing London with many other locations around the world, and you get a common headline about perhaps the most famous graffiti artist of our time. Their personality is still a mystery, just like many other artists who leave their works on city streets. It was done in three distinct Styles each telling a story of different people who walked these very paths ages ago there are hundreds of vibrant hand prints plastered across the cave walls cave dwellers used bone made pipes to create these magnificent silhouettes of their own hands the artists were true Wizards with colors and they used various mineral pigments to bring their Visions to life from fiery Reds and purples made from Iron oxides to crisp whites crafted with cowlin this Ancient Graffiti ground also has some hunting scenes and portrayals of animals and human life this artwork was made earlier than the handprints and its authors were hunter-gatherers the third style is more stylized and minimalistic a viking from Scandinavia left this runic marking in the highest Sophia Basilica in then Constantinople now Istanbul he carved his name on the White marble saying something like half Dan carved these runes or haftan was here Millennia later tourists still leaves similar notes around the globe the first example of modern style graffiti that we know of was found in the ancient city of Ephesus it shows a handprint that looks like a heart a footprint and a number graffiti by definition is a form of visual communication that usually involves the unauthorized markings of public space this visual art as we know it today originated in Philadelphia in the early 1960s it all started when Daryl McRae who was 12 at the time began to tag his nickname cornbread on the walls of Philadelphia's Youth Development Center a Corrections Facility a few years later when he roamed the streets freely again cornbread started tagging surfaces and walls with his friends by the end of that decade the new visual art had reached New York people went tagging buildings turning them into their personal canvas the first graffiti Stars used subway cars as their canvas covering from top to bottom in spray paintings these artists or taggers mark their territory and formed Crews to conquer the urban landscape one of the first of them was taki183 a teenager of Greek American origin who lived in Manhattan he tagged subway trains fire hydrants and lampposts with his nickname the artist or as they prefer to be called writers of the 1970s would add highlights and shadows to the letters to create a 3d effect they also introduced cartoon style characters to make their Works more unique one of the most famous artists who worked in that style was Von Bodie an American Underground cartoonist and illustrator as the movement gained momentum galleries in New York City even started buying graffiti as art but with Fame came trouble Mayor John Lindsay declared the fight against graffiti which made it really tricky for artists to leave their imprints they had to adapt to get their canvases late at night or early in the morning some writers even had to get MTA uniforms to get in the subway and go out unnoticed they also started working in groups to leave someone on the lookout in the 70s 80s and 90s the subculture took over basically all major cities in the west one of the reasons it happened was the publication of the book Subway art by two highly famous New York photographers it showed the evolution of NYC train art and became sort of a manual for artists worldwide graffiti has evolved from being just nicknames on buildings to an art form with different styles tag style is still there but it can also include images cartoons objects and other features all to help the artist leave their Mark in the city wild style is more abstract sometimes with letters so entangled and overlap that it's nearly impossible to read the message then there's bubble graffiti which also favors style over text pieces of character graffiti are usually large-scale murals they have a rich palette 3D elements and other visual marks it's hard to create those unnoticed and in many cases City officials actually hire artists to make them they draw attention to certain sites in the city and become sites themselves some artists prefer to leave their graffiti on stickers that they designed beforehand and print on special paper this is the fastest and easiest method to spread your art all over the place then there's also stencil graffiti this style lets the artist add finer details and lines because they can plan the image beforehand such works of art look the most realistic and artists often use this style to make visual statements about what's going on in the world the most famous of them is Banksy they started out as a freehand graffiti artist in 1993. several years later they moved on to stencils to work faster and create a series of images of rats and officers of the law their Works became famous but they never uncovered his personality later the artist brought together graffiti installation and performances at the crude oils exhibition in London they displayed altered replicas of legendary artworks by Claude Monet Vincent van Gogh and Edward Hopper and set loose 200 live rats Banksy even managed to sneak into the Louvre in Paris and put their own version of Mona Lisa at the Museum their most famous works are the little girl with a balloon created in London and the flower thrower there are many theories about the artist's true identity from that they live a double life as a leader of a popular band Massive Attack to that it's actually a group of artists working in one style another famous artist who created graffiti was Keith Herring he lived only 31 years but left us with around 10 000 pieces of Art Keith grew up in a small conservative town in Pennsylvania and was inspired by cartoons and animations ever since he was little the artist was also interested in semiotics trying to figure out how things got their names his goal was to bring art to the people and he used chalk to draw on Old advertisement boards at the subway years later his art was shown at Major museums around the world but curators in America didn't take his work seriously his last Public Work became one of the largest murals in Europe it's called tudamanda which translates from Italian as all world Shepard Ferry an American contemporary artist and founder of Obey Clothing started his career in art by placing his drawings on skateboards and t-shirts when he was a teenager he was inspired by the art of Andy Warhol and Diego Rivera which is clear from his style to spread his art he started placing stickers with it all around his City the face of a famous wrestler Andre the Giant was stuck more than a million times the debate rages on whether graffiti is a violation of law or a form of artistic expression some officials believe that when done with permission it's pure art but if it's on someone else's property it becomes an unlawful No-No today's artists can share their works and deliver their important messages much easier than before through social media digital graffiti has become a part of modern branding and is used by many companies to connect to younger consumers so 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