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Tuesday 20 December 2011

Could the Shroud of Turin be real after all? Scientists recreate iconic image with 'blinding flash of light'

It is an enigma that has divided scientists and believers for centuries. But now, a group of scientists say that the Shroud of Turin could actually be Christ's burial robe despite years of tests proving the contrary. Using a series of advanced experiments, Italian researchers say that the technology available when it was created was simply not available to likely 'fakers' - and that marks on the shroud were created by a blinding flash of light at short wavelengths. Carbon dating tests carried out in 1988 in Oxford, Zurich and Arizona suggested that the shroud was created some time between 1260 and 1390. That research was disputed, however, because there was a possibility of contamination from patches of cloth that had been sewn on following a fire in Chambery, France, in 1532....Read More>>>....