[SunkenCiv]

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This undated photo released by the University of Chieti, Italy, on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006, shows fingerprints on a paper believed to be handled by Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci. Anthropologists said they have pieced together Leonardo da Vinci's left index fingerprint _ a discovery that could help shed light on such thing as the food the artist ate and whether his mother was of Arabic origin. The three-year research was based on a first core of professional quality photographs of about 200 fingerprints _ most of them partial_ taken from about 52 papers handled by Leonardo in his life. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Piero Lucco, Chieti University, ho)

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[SunkenCiv]

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[bannie]

WOW! Next, we'll be able to clone him from the saliva that was transfered from his hand to paper!

BTW: I wonder how many "many arches" are?

[texas booster]

If she was a slave from the Ottoman Empire then her true ancestry could have been anything from a nomadic peasant to one of the various Persian tribes to Indian, to Jewish or Kurd or Armenian.

Being a slave of the Arabs does not make you Arab. Or else most blacks out of Africa could claim Arab ancestry.

[SunkenCiv]

Da Vinci Fingerprint Reveals Arab Heritage
Discovery News | Oct. 28, 2006 | Rossella Lorenzi
Posted on 11/03/2006 1:37:49 PM EST by Lorianne
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1731644/posts