The Turin Shroud — Left: actual appearance; Right: photographic negative, revealing the 3-D image

TURIN SHROUD

Posted by Jon King on Feb 17, 2009

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One of the most intriguing anomalies in Christendom has to be the Turin Shroud, said to be the burial cloth in which Jesus was wrapped immediately following his crucifixion. Though carbon dating tests cast doubt on this theory, no one has yet come up with a plausible alternative.

Mystery Of The Turin Shroud

What Is It?

So what exactly is this mysterious linen cloth? Where did it come from? How old is it?

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And the sixty-four-thousand-dollar queston: how did such a perfect 3-D image of what appears to be the face of Christ become impressed on the cloth’s surface?

The problem facing scientists is not simply one of dating the shroud; they also need to discover the method used to create the image, best appreciated when reversed in photographic negative (see image at top of page).

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Mystery Of The Turin Shroud

Latest Carbon Dating Tests

The latest carbon dating tests suggest the shroud was made some time between 1260 and 1390, but even if these dates are accurate (which is not at all certain), the expertise necessary to create such a perfectly formed 3-D image was simply not known in the Middle Ages.

So how was the feat achieved? is the question facing scientists today.

And to answer that question permission is required from the Vatican for further radiocarbon tests to be carried out.

So while we all wait for the powers that be to give the nod and let science decide the day, we’ll have to rely on common sense and intuition to crack this abiding mystery.

That, and the series of seeming contradictions embedded in the Shroud itself.

image source and further information: Shroud.Com