This is the Master's reconstructed fingerprint:
Some dudes in Italy with an awful lot of free time on their hands spent the last 4 years isolating the fingerprint of Leonardo Da Vinci, which is the only biological trace of the man we may know of.
And here is the funny part: according to dematoglyphics, which is the science that analyses the skin's arches, loops and whorls, the man's fingerprint displays pattern which exist in people of Middle Eastern descent, hinting that his mother was indeed a slave from the Middle East (it was common in 15th century Tuscany of to own slaves from the Middle East).
The whole stuff will be displayed in an exhibition which will begin tomorrow at the Uni of Chieti.
Here's what crossed my mind:
I wonder how many Arabs will read that article or watch the Discovery documentary and will say 'ha, he was part Arab, no wonder he's a genius!'. Let's face it, we do that sometimes: we always boast that we're the smartest but we're not given the chance to strive, and show people like Sir Magdi Yaacoub (Britain's Royal surgeon, who is egyptian - Cairo U, baby!) or Ahmed Zoweil (Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1998) to prove that.
Then, feeling a little better, we go back to our petty ethnocentric lives.
We have this thing about one person being necessarily representative of the other 75 million (egyptians), or the other 300 million (arabs), or the other 1,4 billion (muslims). Seriously, people, each person is, well, one person! We do not stand for each other, and the characteristics of one DO NOT reflect those of the others!! Gosh, this is soooo annoying! 'Erfa3 rasna' is something we hear whenever we're going away... WHAT THE HECK!!
I also wondered, on a funnier note... well, Leonardo was a homosexual! How many Arabs will say that this also came from his Arab genes?
:)
And here is the funny part: according to dematoglyphics, which is the science that analyses the skin's arches, loops and whorls, the man's fingerprint displays pattern which exist in people of Middle Eastern descent, hinting that his mother was indeed a slave from the Middle East (it was common in 15th century Tuscany of to own slaves from the Middle East).
The whole stuff will be displayed in an exhibition which will begin tomorrow at the Uni of Chieti.
Here's what crossed my mind:
I wonder how many Arabs will read that article or watch the Discovery documentary and will say 'ha, he was part Arab, no wonder he's a genius!'. Let's face it, we do that sometimes: we always boast that we're the smartest but we're not given the chance to strive, and show people like Sir Magdi Yaacoub (Britain's Royal surgeon, who is egyptian - Cairo U, baby!) or Ahmed Zoweil (Nobel Chemistry Prize, 1998) to prove that.
Then, feeling a little better, we go back to our petty ethnocentric lives.
We have this thing about one person being necessarily representative of the other 75 million (egyptians), or the other 300 million (arabs), or the other 1,4 billion (muslims). Seriously, people, each person is, well, one person! We do not stand for each other, and the characteristics of one DO NOT reflect those of the others!! Gosh, this is soooo annoying! 'Erfa3 rasna' is something we hear whenever we're going away... WHAT THE HECK!!
I also wondered, on a funnier note... well, Leonardo was a homosexual! How many Arabs will say that this also came from his Arab genes?
:)
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