Judah
War Child
Ack, just when we thought that wily Leonardo da Vinci could've been doing some x-ray magic with this cloth, there may have been someone even more clever earlier (i.e. Jesus/God)...
What do you think? Hoax or real?
There's a London Daily Telegraph story in Canadian newspapers today (sorry, couldn't get the whole story) saying:
Rome: Shroud of Turin far older than thought, tests show
The Shroud of Turin is far older than carbon dating suggests, and may indeed date to biblical times as believers claim, a study has found. The findings may revive hopes that the cloth, far from being a medieval fake, is a miraculous recording of the face of Jesus after the Crucifixion. Raymond Rogers, of the University of California's Los Alamos Laboratory, argues that carbon-dating tests on the shroud in 1988 were "invalid,'' because they were performed on a replacement section rather than the original linen. His own exhaustive tests, most of them chemical analyses of fibres he says were taken from the original linen, instead reveal its age to be from 1,300 to 3,000 years old.
What do you think? Hoax or real?
There's a London Daily Telegraph story in Canadian newspapers today (sorry, couldn't get the whole story) saying:
Rome: Shroud of Turin far older than thought, tests show
The Shroud of Turin is far older than carbon dating suggests, and may indeed date to biblical times as believers claim, a study has found. The findings may revive hopes that the cloth, far from being a medieval fake, is a miraculous recording of the face of Jesus after the Crucifixion. Raymond Rogers, of the University of California's Los Alamos Laboratory, argues that carbon-dating tests on the shroud in 1988 were "invalid,'' because they were performed on a replacement section rather than the original linen. His own exhaustive tests, most of them chemical analyses of fibres he says were taken from the original linen, instead reveal its age to be from 1,300 to 3,000 years old.
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