Unexplained

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It was long accepted that Vincent van Gogh shot himself in July of 1890—after all, death by suicide fit snugly with a tumultuous narrative of extreme self-doubt and severe self-harm. But the evidence never completely added up; local testimony referenced two teenage boys bullying van Gogh shortly before his death, and the smoking gun was never found. Loving Vincent (2017), the world’s first painted feature film currently nominated for an Oscar, follows an alternative theory that the artist was fatally shot by wayward village boy René Secrétan. Troubled, unlucky in love, and just plain misunderstood, van Gogh is portrayed as an unparalleled talent with a gentle disposition who covered up the wicked act as suicide in a final act of kindness.

 

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Geoglyphs spanning hundreds of feet depict animals and shapes across the highland plateaus of southern Peru’s Nasca Desert. Located in a remote, arid region some 200 miles from the nation’s capital of Lima, more than 800 straight lines, 300 geometric shapes, and 70 renderings of animals and plants adorn the land, according to National Geographic—the largest of which comes in at an expanse rivaling the Empire State Building. Attributed to the ancient Nasca people between the year 1 and 700 A.D., the lines are thought to have been made by carefully displacing red rocks and earth to reveal lighter soil underneath. But anthropologists continue to ruminate on why they were created. Were the Nasca people trying to communicate with their gods? With aliens? Map the stars? Beckon rain? It remains a mystery.

 

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In 1990, 13 masterpieces were stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The colossal robbery, which remains the biggest art heist in history, resulted in a $500 million loss of treasured artworks by Old Masters such as Johannes Vermeer and Rembrandt van Rijn. In the summer of 2017, seasoned private investigator Arthur Brand claimed knowledge of some hot tips on this cold case, but as it stands, all suspects are now dead from various causes, none of the artworks have yet been recovered, and the museum is offering a $10 million reward to anyone with credible intel.

 

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Oh, the irony that one of the most famous contemporary artists to date is still unidentifiable after 30 years. Banksy rose to prominence in the early 1990s for his socially and politically driven works of street art, and his stenciled aesthetic remains internationally recognizable. Yet, despite his high-profile oeuvre and his Academy Award-nominated documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010), Bansky still successfully lurks in the shadows. The artist is presumed British, and theories have ranged from suggesting that Banksy is actually a collective of street artists to Massive Attack frontman Robert Del Naja. Truth is, we still don’t know.

^Batman.^​

 

Is time travel real? The unexplained pictures that shouldn't show smartphones - but do

 

Tim Cook highlighted this 1670 painting last year, after spotting what looks like an iPhone. The Apple boss told a tech event in Amsterdam: "I always thought I knew when the iPhone was invented, but now I'm not so sure!"

The painting, the snappily titled 'Man Handing a Letter to a Woman in the Entrance Hall of a House' by Pieter de Hooch, actually shows a man holding a letter (the clue is in the name).

 

This Greek gravestone from 100BC appears to show an ancient stone laptop with two USB ports.

The carving, which resides in the J. Paul Getty Museum in California, is a funeral marker - depicting the deceased in a domestic scene. Which, as any self-respecting modern woman knows - includes checking Instagram.

Skeptics say the object is, in fact, a shallow chest. But the internet was divided over one question: Mac or PC?

 

PC! Give them credit.

 

There appears to be a Native American checking his Facebook in this 1937 mural 'Mr. Pynchon and the Settling of Springfield.'

The Italian semi-abstract painter Umberto Romano painted a scene that was loosely based on actual events that occurred around a pre-Revolutionary War encounter between members of two prominent New England tribes, and English settlers in present-day Massachusetts in the 1630s> About 200 years before the advent of electricity.

 

Those ancient Greeks really were ahead of their time. This vase by painter Douris from about 500BC, appears to show a man using a laptop with a stylus.

Historians have suggested he was probably writing on a wax tablet, rather than using Microsoft Paint.

 

Some laptops need external USB mics.

 

Excellent thread Rainbow. Right up my street xxx

 

Is your street unexplained?

 

Yes as I live in an Avenue. lol

 

I hear that your house is haunted by a sexy ghost.

 

She comes and goes.

 

Bob put those there...

We always made him do the weird stuff.

 

Who is Bob?

We say Bob's your Uncle in the UK

 

No. He is a builder.

 

The 2,000-Year-Old Body That Still Has Hair, Eyelashes, And Blood In Her Veins



Xin Zhui who is also known as Lady Day was the Marquise of Dai during the Western Han dynasty in ancient China. Her tomb was found 2,000 years after her death inside a hill named Mawangdui in China with hundreds of valuable artifacts and documents alongside her body. What surprised everyone, however, was how incredibly well-preserved her body was thousands of years after her death. Lady Day was found with all of her organs and blood vessels intact, there was also a small amount of Type A blood found in her veins, and she still had hair and eyelashes. Scientists found seeds of melon in her stomach which led them to believe she died during the melon season in summer; this also meant she died within a couple of hours of eating a melon. What surprised everyone the most was the mysterious liquid that her body was soaked in. It was mildly acidic and had some magnesium in it, and it was probably what helped to preserve her body. To this day scientists still don’t know what kind of liquid it was.