[xkaydet65]

I’d feel more confident if the researchers had been French or Swedish. Imagine, Italian scientists authenticating an Italian tourist attraction. That would never happen.Right? Still, the image is awe inspiring to me, and has been since I was first shown it by a parish priest in ‘61.

[Tanniker Smith]

Sceptics have long claimed that the shroud is a medieval forgery, and radiocarbon testing conducted by laboratories in Oxford, Zurich and Arizona in 1988 appeared to back up the theory, suggesting that it dated from between 1260 and 1390.

These test results were later disputed by one of the researchers who originally came up with the dates while trying to debunk an amateur couple who debunked his work.

[Talisker]

From article: "The scientists used extremely brief pulses of ultraviolet light to replicate the kind of marks found on the burial cloth.

[ducttape45]

No it’s not. Jews never buried people in the manner the shroud suggests.

[oh8eleven]

Even if they date it back to the time of Christ, they can never prove that the image is that of Jesus Christ.