What did Jesus look like? Amazingly, there is no description of Him in the New Testament or in any contemporary source. Yet, in hundreds of icons, paintings, mosaics, drawings and coins, there is a common quality that enables us to identify Jesus in works of art. Shroud scholar and historian Ian Wilson theorizes that a common set of facial characteristics became the norm following the discovery of the Edessa Cloth concealed in the city's walls in 544 CE.
I believe the Lord had short hair as was the style of the day. back them.
Apparent Shroud-inspired images of Christ are noticeable on coins struck in 692 CE during the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian II. The distinctive front-facing appearance of Jesus on the Shroud is also found on numerous icons, mosaics and frescos from the sixth century on. The most startling example is the Christ Pantocrator icon at Saint Catherine's Monastery, reliably dated to 550 CE.
"Using our Polarized Image Overlay Technique, we have examined hundreds of depictions of Jesus in every type of artistic medium from one-fourth-inch-high faces on coins to gigantic mosaics covering the ceilings of great cathedrals from the sixth century on, and we have been able to show that the Mandylion/Shroud face was used as the prototype for almost all of these images."
Mary and Alan Whanger from their book, The Shroud of Turin: An Adventure in Discovery
Yea I say that on t.v., so really it proves nothing. I know Jesus was real I believe the bible. Not because of some arcaic cloth in the basement of some false doctrine centerized church.
John 4: 48. Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
Hi! Though you might want to bump the Protestant list. For those who are not familiar with the shroud, the link provides an unbelievable amount of data regarding the man whose image appears thereon. Most remarkable are seeds and pollen found in the fibers, which come ONLY from the Holy Land.