It has been one of the 20th century's most intriguing artifacts, a shroud measuring 14 feet, 4 inches by 3 feet, 7 inches, with what appears to be an imprint of Jesus Christ. The so called Shroud of Turin shows an image of the front and back of a man with long hair, with arms crossed in front, and what appears to be blood from wounds in the side, hands, and feet.
In 1988, carbon dating tests showed the shroud to date between 1260 and 1390 AD, proving a setback for the believers in its authenticity. Now, according to an Italian scientist, he was able to reproduce the image, undoubtedly proving that the Shroud of Turin was a clever reproduction.
"We have shown that is possible to reproduce something which has the same characteristics as the Shroud," Luigi Garlaschelli, who is due to illustrate the results at a conference on the para-normal this weekend in northern Italy, said on Monday.
A professor of organic chemistry at the University of Pavia, Garlaschelli made available to Reuters the paper he will deliver and the accompanying comparative photographs.
Garlaschelli reproduced the full-sized shroud using materials and techniques that were available in the middle ages.
They placed a linen sheet flat over a volunteer and then rubbed it with a pigment containing traces of acid. A mask was used for the face.
The pigment was then artificially aged by heating the cloth in an oven and washing it, a process which removed it from the surface but left a fuzzy, half-tone image similar to that on the Shroud. He believes the pigment on the original Shroud faded naturally over the centuries.
They then added blood stains, burn holes, scorches and water stains to achieve the final effect.
From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Geekazoid.
I don't "believe" in the Shroud myself, but I know there are intelligent, educated people who do.
Don't scientists know how to fake anything right?
Boy isn't that the sad truth.
Yes, there was a sect of Jewish men that did not cut their hair, but they were dedicating their life to God--Jesus was a carpenter before He did is preaching.
The story of the shroud of Turin to my knowledge is as follows:
The first consistent and without doubt to this cloth connectable refence is from 1357 when the cloth was displayed in Lirey, France. Bishop Henry the Poities had spoken with an artist who confessed in making the cloth on request of a servant of Geoffroy de Charny, Lord of Savoisy and Lirey. Geoffroy was known to be in need of revenues (cash), so he did what was done more often during that time- He arranged a holy artifact to be made to generate modernly said- tourism to his part of the woods.
As far as I know, there is writing on this between Pierre d'Arcis and pope Clement. The Bishop of Troyes around the 1370's-80's was firmly convinced that the cloth was fake after he and his team had spoken to several people who had been involved in the scam. The research and documents lie in the Vatican.
The artist used what knowledge he had at that time and he did hid with the materials he had at that time. Nothing more, nothing less. All the tests on the materials so far have shown dating around the time of fiorst appearance, so that correlates.
The man portrayed on the cloth is with a hairdo like how people thought Jesus would have looked back then- With long hair, mustache and beard. That was a hairdothat came into fashion in Europe since the Great Migrations at the end of the Roman Western Empire. Yet like Another Tim already brings up- It is highly unlikely that Jesus would look like that, because that was not how men looked over there at that time, with stricter rules of appearance than nowadays and with different hairgrow on the men in that region.
Ahh crap, I knew I should have kept the box closed!
If it is real or not has not been proven yet. This experiment must include the same evaluation as the other shroud. Results the same, then the shroud is fake.
Just because you can duplicate something does not mean that you have a clone. I demand more before putting this to rest.
Both items have folks who not only say they can duplicate them- both items have people who testify that they are the ones who are the makers.
And in both cases there's a whole load of people who refuse thos testimonies and keep saying Nó that is not you who did that because we just knów that humans cannot make them: That is Divine-Non-terrestrial-Non-Human!!!
Uhhhhhhhh..........
....Am I missing something here? Or are they.....?
:-D
That argument sounds like one of those people defending that the pyramids were made by aliens, because people back then we're not as advanced as we are today. Chances are, people didn't try this experiment way back when for fear of becoming ostracised for doing so, or imprisoned for committing heresy. It's just very recently where Italian's have been speaking out against the papacy without repercussions.
hahahahahaha....That was a joke, right?
And then from 1898 that first reverse photograph was made. And then it went about silent for some 90 years again. Finally from 1988 on, science came "on line" because the Church finally gave uneasy access to the cloth.
Not 750 years- At best and stretched to breaking point in this interpretation over all that time- some 70-80 years.
This shroud is as bogus as all the pieces of the true cross or the bones of the apostles that are in so many churches and private hands. Stuff like this brings down criticism on Christians as gullible fools. The Virgin Mary appeared on my toast this morning!
It's okay for a Christian to accept the fact that the shroud of Turin is a fake. And also to accept the fact that medieval artists could paint lifelike pictures. Sheesh!