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Was the Shroud of Turin a forged artifact?
Is the Shroud of Turin the burial cloth of Jesus?
What is the Shroud of Turin?
Where did the linen from the Shroud of Turin come from?
Mar 26, 2024 · New scientific tests conducted on the famous Shroud of Turin have revealed that the flax used to make the linen was grown in the Middle East.
Apr 3, 2023 · Today, the bulk of evidence indicates that the Shroud originated sometime around the Middle Ages, and was created by human hands. Despite this, there’s still no consensus on how, exactly, the image was made, leaving the door open to a number of fringe theories and speculations.
- Nathaniel Scharping
The Shroud of Turin (Italian: Sindone di Torino), also known as the Holy Shroud (Italian: Sacra Sindone), is a length of linen cloth that bears a faint image of the front and back of a man.
While science and scholarship have demonstrated that the Shroud of Turin is not the burial cloth of Jesus but instead a fourteenth-century forgery, shroud devotees continue to claim otherwise.
Apr 17, 2015 · If the most advanced technologies available in the 21st century could not produce a facsimile of the shroud image, he reasons, how could it have been executed by a medieval forger?
- Frank Viviano
Mar 30, 2024 · Shroud of Turin, a length of linen that for centuries was purported to be the burial garment of Jesus Christ. It has been preserved since 1578 in the royal chapel of the cathedral of San Giovanni Battista in Turin, Italy.
If the Shroud of Turin is a forgery of the 14 th century, as the radiocarbonists claim, and not a genuine artifact of the 1 st century, all of these qualities of the purported medieval "forger" must be accepted. If the Shroud was "forged" it would have to have been painted.
