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Arthur Brand is not only a Dutch art historian. He’s famous in the art world for tracking down works of art that are either believed to have been lost or destroyed. He has managed to recover what is perhaps the greatest find of his life. It’s a 1,600 year old mosaic of Siant Marks from the Byzantine era that was stolen from a Cyprus church in the 1970s.

CNN reports that Brand has recovered more than 200 works of art so far, ranging from Surrealist paintings to artwork that was stolen by the Nazis. He recovered two horse sculptures by Josef Thorak in 2015 that stood outside Adolph Hitler’s Reichstag building.

He was able to trace them using archival documents, satellite images, and military informants to locate the sculptures that were believed to have been lost in the Battle of Berlin. He then created a fake art buyer persona to obtain more information about them before tipping off German law enforcement.

He has been hunting this 1,600 year old mosaic for the past three years. The Agence France-Presse reports that he started looking for it when an art dealer tipped him off that the mosaic was in Monaco. He used several intermediaries, including some in the underground art scene, to locate the apartment where the mosaic was. The owner had actually inherited it from his father who apparently didn’t know it was stolen when he bought it in the 1970s.

“They were horrified when they found out that it was, in fact, a priceless art treasure, looted from the Kanakaria Church after the Turkish invasion,” Brand told AFP. The owner agreed to give back the artwork in exchange for payment to cover the restoration and storage cost. The mosaic is reportedly worth up to $11.4 million and Brand says that finding it was “one of the greatest moments of my life.” It has since been returned to its rightful home in Cyprus.

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A group of Fallout 76 players ended up crashing the game’s server when they conducted a synchronized triple nuke launch. That was apparently too much to take for the server which ended up buckling. Be warned, though, there are some spoilers ahead if you still haven’t picked up the title.

The group of players who randomly met on Reddit synchronized the launch of three nukes on the map but the server crashed as they neared ground zero. They ended up being kicked from the game. The players had deployed the nukes after defeating the Scorchbeast Queen.

Those who have played the game would be aware that Scorchbeasts are high level enemies that surface after a Fissure Site is nuked. The Queen is a level 95 unit that can be defeated as part of a timed event.

According to reports, the players had played the beta for long enough to access the nuke codes before the game was launched. This enabled them to synchronize a triple nuke strike on the title’s launch day.

Bethesda has rolled out the first major patch for Fallout 76 today. It brings fixes and improvements. The patch might prevent this from happening ever again. It’s pretty likely that many other players will try recreating this by synchronizing nuke launches across the map to see if the patch really does fix it or not.

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