Taliban destroyed Bamiyan’s Statue

The thing I love very much is to keep an ancient thing collected under my bag. I don’t like to destroy anything that has covered a long distance of time either in history or in some past time. But to my horror, that the big statue of Goutam Buddha in Bamiyan had been completely destroyed by the radical Talibans .The Talibans, brought up and nursed by Americans have even declared an encounter against America. In fact a statue has a special significant value in history and also in a country. But unfortunately that has been destroyed. We would not be able to create such wonder again. Though science has improved and technology also developed itself. Human beings have acquired and used them as two big weapons. With them they may be able to erect such structure again but that structure would lose its importance to the tourists as well as the history also. We value those things as ancient and antique which have covered a long way in history and have become experienced. A special kind of smell or taste is found mingled with those statues and antiques. We all feel this smell or taste and that is why we do not consider a thing historically valuable unless we get some clues or points.

The value of an old thing is far better and more important than a new one. That is why we still love the old sculptures and paintings. An old thing being very old and having covered a long distance in history creates its importance to us. We give value to its age and oldness. That thing bears a large amount of human touch, praise and has been able to make its position in the discussion as well as criticism. For all these it remains covering a large portion of human thought and creates its significance. All these reasons help to grow its importance and value. We evaluate the thing and consider it as valuable. This value is considered as historical value. One can’t achieve this value easily. It takes a long time to be acquired. And that is the reason why we value the old.

Ancient Egyptians ahead of time

The recent discovery of an industrial complex in Egypt has led researchers to revise their conceptions over what level of advancement the Nile civilization had actually reached, with their advanced glass making abilities roving that the ancient Egyptian were technologically much more ahead of their time than scholars previously thought, according to livescience.com
The site at Amarna, is on the banks of the Nile and dates back to the reign of Akhenaton (1352-1336 BC), just a few years before the rule of Tutankhamun.
Historians have said Egyptians of that time imported their glass. But a team led by archeologist Paul Nikolson of Cardiff university in Wales has reconstructed a 3000 year-old glass furnace ,showing that ancient Egyptian glass making methods were much more advance than thought.
The researchers used local sand to produce a glass ingot from their own experimental reconstruction of an ancient furnace near the site.
They also have discovered that the glass works part of an industrial complex, as they have described it. The site contained a potter’s workshop and facilities for making blue pigment and materials used in the architectural inlays.

Was Leonardo Da Vinci an Arabian???

Recently a shade has-been given to the research on Leonardo Da Vinci’s life & works that he may have had an Arab heritage. According to Italian researchers they have spied a fingerprint of Da Vinci in one of his paintings and claimed that it was his index finger that they have found on one of his famous masterpieces.

Leonardo Da Vinci used his finger to smudge a necklace’s shadow in one of his paintings. The finger print has been approved as his own after 3 years of scrutinizing 52 manuscripts and paintings. The team have found more than 200 prints and finally one has been entitled as his own.

No doubt that this invention would give weight to the increasingly popular academic theory that Da Vinci’s mother, Caterina was a slave who had come to Tuscany from Istanbul. Almost nothing is left of Da Vinci or his family. After his death in 1519; his remains were dispersed in a series of religious war.

Inspiration & Criticism

Inspiration is a source of power that leads a man beyond expectation. It is really a power that can propel a man to such a direction that the man excels his prowess, skill and performances exceeding his general output. This kind of power, consists of some good words of praise and admiration, creates an inspiration in the mind of the person and boosts up his prowess, skills and confidence. No need to say that praise plays the key role in igniting the inspiration, but criticism also plays a significant role here. Criticism helps indicating the weak points and mistakes have somehow been occurred. Criticism helps in finding the mistakes, faults and errors which can deteriorate the quality of an action. One can rectify himself from the criticism and can perform better in future. Criticism can also create an impression in a man and helps him perform better. Like praise it also generates a power into a man and fuels him to perform better. Therefore praise and criticism both are the prime elements in forming or igniting the inspiration. Praise sometimes lets one perform ignoring the moral rules but criticism restrains one and compels to behave according to the rules. Most of the people do not accept criticism as the source of inspiration. Only the people want to prosper in life accept criticism warmly. They want to learn about the errors and weak points found in their behaviors so that they can rectify themselves and perform better in future. However, accepting criticism as a source of inspiration has not yet been widely adopted.