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Who Painted the Meidum Geese?

 

 

ENNA, SICILY – Francesco Tiradritti of Kore University of Enna and director of the Italian archaeological mission to Egypt thinks that the Meidum Geese, a painting supposedly found in a tomb near the Meidum Pyramid in 1871 by Luigi Vassalli, may be a forgery. Vassalli is credited with removing the painting, now housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and putting it in the Museum Bulaq, where he was a curator. The painting depicts three kinds of geese: white-fronted geese, bean geese, and red-breasted geese. Tiradritti told Live Science that when he realized that the bean goose and the red breasted goose were unlikely to have been seen in Egypt, he took a more critical look at the painting, considered by many to be a masterpiece of Egyptian art. He found that some of the colors in the painting are unique, and the way that the geese are drawn, so that they appear to be the same size, is also unusual. The ancient Egyptians drew animals and people in different sizes, sometimes in order to convey their importance. Tiradritti adds that the cracks in the painting “are not compatible with the supposed ripping of the painting from the wall.” He thinks the geese were painted by Vassalli, who was a trained artist. “The only thing that, in my opinion, still remains to ascertain is what was (or ‘is’) painted under them. But that can be only established through a noninvasive analysis,” he said.
(Adapted from: . Accessed on: April 1st 2015.)

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...so that they appear to be the same size, is also unusual.
The ancient Egyptians drew animals and people in different sizes, sometimes in order to convey their importance.
The only thing that, in my opinion, still remains to ascertain is what was (or ‘is’) painted under them.

Identify the words the pronouns underlined refer to.

Read the following text and answer question.

 

Who Painted the Meidum Geese?

 

 

ENNA, SICILY – Francesco Tiradritti of Kore University of Enna and director of the Italian archaeological mission to Egypt thinks that the Meidum Geese, a painting supposedly found in a tomb near the Meidum Pyramid in 1871 by Luigi Vassalli, may be a forgery. Vassalli is credited with removing the painting, now housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and putting it in the Museum Bulaq, where he was a curator. The painting depicts three kinds of geese: white-fronted geese, bean geese, and red-breasted geese. Tiradritti told Live Science that when he realized that the bean goose and the red breasted goose were unlikely to have been seen in Egypt, he took a more critical look at the painting, considered by many to be a masterpiece of Egyptian art. He found that some of the colors in the painting are unique, and the way that the geese are drawn, so that they appear to be the same size, is also unusual. The ancient Egyptians drew animals and people in different sizes, sometimes in order to convey their importance. Tiradritti adds that the cracks in the painting “are not compatible with the supposed ripping of the painting from the wall.” He thinks the geese were painted by Vassalli, who was a trained artist. “The only thing that, in my opinion, still remains to ascertain is what was (or ‘is’) painted under them. But that can be only established through a noninvasive analysis,” he said.
(Adapted from: . Accessed on: April 1st 2015.)

What first called Francesco Tiradritti’s attention concerning the originality of the painting?

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Who Painted the Meidum Geese?

 

 

ENNA, SICILY – Francesco Tiradritti of Kore University of Enna and director of the Italian archaeological mission to Egypt thinks that the Meidum Geese, a painting supposedly found in a tomb near the Meidum Pyramid in 1871 by Luigi Vassalli, may be a forgery. Vassalli is credited with removing the painting, now housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and putting it in the Museum Bulaq, where he was a curator. The painting depicts three kinds of geese: white-fronted geese, bean geese, and red-breasted geese. Tiradritti told Live Science that when he realized that the bean goose and the red breasted goose were unlikely to have been seen in Egypt, he took a more critical look at the painting, considered by many to be a masterpiece of Egyptian art. He found that some of the colors in the painting are unique, and the way that the geese are drawn, so that they appear to be the same size, is also unusual. The ancient Egyptians drew animals and people in different sizes, sometimes in order to convey their importance. Tiradritti adds that the cracks in the painting “are not compatible with the supposed ripping of the painting from the wall.” He thinks the geese were painted by Vassalli, who was a trained artist. “The only thing that, in my opinion, still remains to ascertain is what was (or ‘is’) painted under them. But that can be only established through a noninvasive analysis,” he said.
(Adapted from: . Accessed on: April 1st 2015.)

The Meidum Geese is

  Global sleeping patterns revealed by app data.

 

It showed the Dutch have nearly an hour more in bed every night than people in Singapore or Japan.

 

The study, published in Science Advances, also found women routinely get more sleep than men, with middle-aged men getting the least of all.

 

The researchers say the findings could be used to deal with the "global sleep crisis".

 

The study found people in Japan and Singapore had an average of seven hours and 24 minutes sleep while the people in the Netherlands had eight hours and 12 minutes.

 

People in the UK averaged just under eight hours - a smidgen less than the French.

 

The later a country stays up into the night, the less sleep it gets. But what time a country wakes up seems to have little effect on sleep duration.

 

Prof Daniel Forger, one of the researchers, said there was a conflict between our desire to stay up late and our bodies urging us to get up in the morning.

 

The study also showed women had about 30 minutes more per night in bed than men, particularly between the ages of 30 and 60.

 

And that people who spend the most time in natural sunlight tended to go to bed earlier.

 

A strong effect of age on sleep was also detected. A wide range of sleep and wake-up times was found in young people but "that really narrows in old age," said Prof Forger.

 

"It highlights that although our body clocks are programming us to do certain things, we can't as we're ruled by social circumstances.

 

"We won't know the long-term consequences of this for many years."

Adaptado de: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36226874 Acessado em 7 de maio de 2016.

Among other findings, it is true to say that

  Global sleeping patterns revealed by app data.

 

It showed the Dutch have nearly an hour more in bed every night than people in Singapore or Japan.

 

The study, published in Science Advances, also found women routinely get more sleep than men, with middle-aged men getting the least of all.

 

The researchers say the findings could be used to deal with the "global sleep crisis".

 

The study found people in Japan and Singapore had an average of seven hours and 24 minutes sleep while the people in the Netherlands had eight hours and 12 minutes.

 

People in the UK averaged just under eight hours - a smidgen less than the French.

 

The later a country stays up into the night, the less sleep it gets. But what time a country wakes up seems to have little effect on sleep duration.

 

Prof Daniel Forger, one of the researchers, said there was a conflict between our desire to stay up late and our bodies urging us to get up in the morning.

 

The study also showed women had about 30 minutes more per night in bed than men, particularly between the ages of 30 and 60.

 

And that people who spend the most time in natural sunlight tended to go to bed earlier.

 

A strong effect of age on sleep was also detected. A wide range of sleep and wake-up times was found in young people but "that really narrows in old age," said Prof Forger.

 

"It highlights that although our body clocks are programming us to do certain things, we can't as we're ruled by social circumstances.

 

"We won't know the long-term consequences of this for many years."

Adaptado de: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36226874 Acessado em 7 de maio de 2016.

The research study on global sleeping patterns

  An accident took her sight 21 years ago; another just gave it back

 

After a car accident injured her spine in 1995, Mary Ann Franco lost her vision. But after being blind for 21 years, the Florida woman fell in her home and hurt her neck ... and woke up from the ensuing spinal surgery on April 6 with the ability to see. "Out the window, I could see the trees. I could see the houses and stuff," Franco tells WPBF. Oddly, Franco was colorblind before her car accident, and now she can also see colors. The neurosurgeon who operated on her says he has no scientific explanation for what happened— Dr. John Afshar tells ABC News it's a "true miracle"—but he has an idea. If an artery in Franco's spine was "kinked" in the car accident, restricting the flow of blood to the part of her brain that handles vision, he may have inadvertently "unkinked" the same artery during the recent surgery, he theorizes. "And when we gave that extra amount of blood flow by unkinking the vessel, it could have reestablished the blood flow," he tells WPBF, though he notes that none of this is certain. But an explanation doesn't matter much to Franco: "The sun is coming through the trees," she said on a recent morning. "Oh God, it’s so wonderful to see." Nature isn't the only sight for her to behold: Franco has seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren who WPBF notes she has hugged and kissed but never seen.

Adaptado de: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2016/05/04/accident-took-hersight-21-years-ago-another-just-gave-it-back.html Acessado em 5 de maio de 2016.

Mary Ann Franco