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Fresh research into the Shroud of Turin has reignited the debate over whether it’s an authentic relic or a medieval creation.
The shroud could feasibly be 2,000 years old if — and it’s a big if — it was stored at an average temperature of about 68 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit and 75 to 55 percent humidity for 13 ...
The Turin Shroud is a piece of linen cloth about 14.5 feet long and 3.7 feet wide. On it you can see the brownish outline of a naked bearded man, who sports long hair and is lying with his hands ...
The Shroud, it turns out, is like a photo negative. "There were plenty of other images of Christ which are meant to be imprints of his face, dating from the middle ages," said de Wesselow.
The Shroud of Turin, a centuries-old linen cloth that many believe was used to wrap Jesus’ body after crucifixion, is unlikely to be from Biblical times, hi-tech new research asserts.
The Shroud, when photographed in 1898, had been in Turin over three hundred years, having been brought there from France by Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy in 1578.
Scientists say the Shroud of Turin can’t be real, but some experts continue to insist it is. Nevertheless, the Shroud and the mystery around it continue to be a huge draw for tourists in Italy.
Heaven help us. A holy war is brewing after an Italian academic released new research claiming the fabled Shroud of Turin offers proof of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion wounds — but some of his ...
The Shroud of Turin has inspired this question for centuries. Now, an art historian says this piece of cloth, said to bear the imprint of the crucified body of Jesus Christ, ...
In 1988, an international team of scientific experts performed radiocarbon dating on snippets of the Shroud of Turin. The results showed that the famous cloth did not date back to the time of ...
The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., will celebrate its fifth birthday on November 17. During the 2017 opening weekend, my husband and I toured the massive 430,000 square-foot museum.