The expert found the image on the shroud could only be created if a cloth was placed over a bas-relief of a human figure, such as a shallow stone carving. “When you wrap a 3D object with a ...

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.

It is a copy of the original, which is a linen cloth that has been venerated for centuries as the burial shroud used to wrap the body of Jesus after the Crucifixion. The 4.4m-long (14ft-long ...

Ownership of the shroud passed to the Catholic Church in 1983. Holy relics were a big thing during the Middle Ages. Body-parts of saints – some genuine, many probably not – criss-crossed Europe.

Just in time for the current Easter season, news emerged from Italy that a new approach to dating the Shroud of Turin has located it squarely in the time frame necessary for it to have wrapped the ...

A new study claims the Shroud of Turin likely never touched Jesus, sparking debate over the authenticity of Christianity’s most famous relic. Moraes found that a shallow sculptural technique ...