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This is significant commentary as it was Nature that published the results of the 1988 carbon 14 dating of the Shroud of Turin.

Barrie Schwortz, Shroud Scholar and a Member of STURP that examined the Shroud in Turin in 1978, will appear on the O'Reilly Factor, Thursday, January 27, 2005 to discuss the Carbon 14 Dating. See foxnews.com for local schedule information. This is a developing story. A January 20, 2005 article in the scholarly, peer-reviewed scientific journal Thermochimica Acta (Volume 425, pages 189-194, by Raymond N. Rogers, Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of California) makes it perfectly clear: the carbon 14 dating sample cut from the Shroud in 1988 was not valid. In fact, the Shroud is much older than the carbon...

Last Updated: Thursday, 27 January, 2005, 11:05 GMT Turin shroud 'older than thought' Tests in 1988 concluded the cloth was a medieval "hoax" The Shroud of Turin is much older than suggested by radiocarbon dating carried out in the 1980s, according to a new study in a peer-reviewed journal. A research paper published in Thermochimica Acta suggests the shroud is between 1,300 and 3,000 years old. The author dismisses 1988 carbon-14 dating tests which concluded that the linen sheet was a medieval fake. The shroud, which bears the faint image of a blood-covered man, is believed by some to be...

The Shroud of Turin is much older than the medieval date that modern science has affixed to it and could be old enough to have been the burial wrapping of Jesus, a new analysis concludes. Since 1988, most scientists have confidently concluded that it was the work of a medieval artist, because carbon dating had placed the production of the fabric between 1260 and 1390. In an article this month in the journal Thermochimica Acta, Dr. Raymond N. Rogers, a chemist retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory, said the carbon dating test was valid but that the piece tested was...

The Shroud of Turin is much older than suggested by radiocarbon dating carried out in the 1980s, according to a new study in a peer-reviewed journal. A research paper published in Thermochimica Acta suggests the shroud is between 1,300 and 3,000 years old. The author dismisses 1988 carbon dating tests which concluded that the linen sheet was a medieval fake.

DALLAS, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Shroud of Turin Association for Research (AMSTAR), a scientific organization dedicated to research on the enigmatic Shroud of Turin, thought by many to be the burial cloth of the crucified Jesus of Nazareth, announced today that the 1988 Carbon-14 test was not done on the original burial cloth, but rather on a rewoven shroud patch creating an erroneous date for the actual age of the Shroud. The Shroud of Turin is a large piece of linen cloth that shows the faint full-body image of a blood-covered man on its surface. Because many believe...

New Chemical Testing Points to Ancient Origin for Burial Shroud of Jesus; Los Alamos Scientist Proves 1988 Carbon-14 Dating of the Shroud of Turin Used Invalid Rewoven Sample Wednesday January 19, 8:32 am ET DALLAS, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Shroud of Turin Association for Research (AMSTAR), a scientific organization dedicated to research on the enigmatic Shroud of Turin, thought by many to be the burial cloth of the crucified Jesus of Nazareth, announced today that the 1988 Carbon-14 test was not done on the original burial cloth, but rather on a rewoven shroud patch creating an erroneous date...

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Computer-generated sketch of boy Jesus based on Shroud of Turin (courtesy Retequattro-Mediaset What did Jesus Christ of Nazareth look like as a boy? While no one knows for certain, forensic experts are now using computer images from the Shroud of Turin along with historical data and other ancient images to make an educated guess. In a documentary called "Jesus' Childhood" airing Sunday night on the Italian TV station Retequattro of the Mediaset Group, police artists use the same "aging" technology employed when searching for missing persons and criminals. "In this case the experts went backwards. Now we have a...

Tom Sullivan, a sports writer, writes in the San Diego Union-Tribune: "The Red Badge of Courage is a soiled sock. It's the blood-stained stocking that covers Curt Schilling's right ankle. It's one of those garments that should be spared detergent, like the Shroud of Turin or Monica Lewinsky's blue cocktail dress." Is it just me or does anyone else find this distasteful? Whatever you may believe or not believe about the Shroud of Turin, millions of Christians of many traditions and denominations believe it is the real burial shroud of Christ. Many find it sacred. The comparison to Monica Lewinsky's...

Discussion about FreeRepublic.com, Dan Rather and amusingly a light reference to the Shroud of Turin: "For the right-leaning bloggers, this was dynamite. They might as well have discovered that the Turin Shroud was created in Photoshop and laser-printed on to Lycra." I've been working on a new page Pictures of Jesus on the Shroud of Turin that clearly shows that it wasn't Photoshop or some faked things.

His name was Joseph Caiaphas. At the time of Jesus’ arrest and crucifixion he had been the high priest of the Temple in Jerusalem and, as the Gospels tell us, was instrumental in Jesus’ arrest. Later, he persecuted some in the early Jerusalem Church before he was dismissed from his post as the high priest by Lucius Vitellius, the consul and governor of Syria under Tiberius. When he died, though he was no longer the high priest, Caiaphas was still a man of privilege. He had married into the powerful high-priestly family of Annas and he was undoubtedly a man...

<p>Abstract from CNN Space and Science: MILAN, Italy (Reuters) -- Italian scientists have found a matching image of a man's face and possibly his hands on the back of the Turin shroud, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, one of the researchers said on Thursday.</p>

"On Monday, the [Institute of Physics in London] said: 'Lying behind the known image of the bearded man bearing the marks of crucifixion, the new image has striking three-dimensional quality and matches in form, size and position the known face.'" This is turning out to be a seminal finding. It virtually eliminates various hoax hypotheses and some miraculous and naturalistic hypotheses as well. It leaves many very puzzled. For more information read first Chemistry of the Image and then Details about the back image. These links will take you to other information including a discussion of the carbon 14 dating...

April 11, 2004 — The ghostly image of a man's face has emerged on the back side of the Turin Shroud, the piece of linen long believed to have been wrapped around Jesus's body after the crucifixion, according to new digital imaging processing techniques. The discovery adds new complexity to one of the most controversial relics in Christendom, venerated by many Catholics as the proof that Christ was resurrected from the grave and dismissed by some scientists as a brilliant medieval fake. The study, which will be published on Tuesday by one of the journals of the Institute of Physics,...

A new study will be published on Tuesday by one of the peer reviewed scientific journals of the Institute of Physics, "The Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics." This may be one of the most revealing discoveries in the last few years in addition to the debunking of the carbon 14 testing and the discovery of the images chemical nature. Giulio Fanti, professor of Mechanical and Thermic Measurements at Padua University and main author of the study, told Discovery News in an interview: "On both sides, the face image is superficial, involving only the outermost linen fibers. When...

When the sample was cut for the 1988 carbon 14 testing of the Shroud, it was divided into six pieces. Three pieces were used for the tests, and three were placed in reserve in a vault. All were sealed and chain of evidence documentation was recorded by the British Museum, representatives of the three carbon dating laboratories, and Turin church authorities. In December of 2003, one of the reserve samples was provided to Raymond Rogers, a UCLA Science Fellow. Rogers is a phyical chemist who once headed up the explosives research and development group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory...

"The sorrow in my heart is so great that it almost crushes me. Stay here and keep watch."– Mark 14: 34 "You look at it and you cannot escape it: His body was horribly, horribly wounded. I choked up," said one visitor to the millennium Shroud of Turin exhibit. Another viewer summed up his experience, "I realized that this image is a message that was left for us. The resurrection truly happened. The man they tried to extinguish, lives. And we will too, no matter what the world tries to do to us, we will rise again with Him." Experts...

We went to see The Passion of the Christ this week. I leave discussions of the theology of the movie to others. This is about the brutality shown. And about man’s inhumanity to man, then and now. There are lessons for Iraq policy today in the ancient images from that movie. First we cover the history of flogging and crucifixion in the Roman Empire. Flogging consisted normally of forty lashes. It was a severe but limited penalty, mostly in the Roman Army. It was used in the same way under the British Admiralty Rules in the 18th Century. The purpose...

In a central part of Turin Cathedral is an elaborate, baroque shrine housing one of the Catholic Church's most precious and controversial artifacts: a 14-foot-long piece of cloth known as the Turin Shroud. The shroud's surface bears, in faint shades of brown, the unmistakable image of a man. The body of this individual appears to bear wounds similar to those inflicted during the ancient execution method of crucifixion. For its dedicated believers, this image is that of Jesus Christ himself, burned onto the cloth upon his miraculous resurrection from the dead. The debate over the Shroud's origins has raged furiously...

Shroud of Christ / Secrets of the Dead Series Wednesday, April 7th at 8 PM on most PBS Channels According to PBS, "the latest evidence suggests that the Shroud of Turin, Christianity's most treasured relic, does, indeed, date from the time of Christ." "SECRETS OF THE DEAD examines the shroud in light of new bacterial clues plus a recently discovered style of stitching previously seen only once before -- amid the ruins of the Jewish citadel of Masada, a town destroyed by the Romans in 74 A.D" Please opine before and after the show. Shroudie

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CNS) -- The wide publicity and controversy surrounding Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" have brought a spike of new interest in the Shroud of Turin, which many believe was Jesus' burial cloth. John P. and Rebecca S. Jackson, who run the Turin Shroud Center of Colorado in Colorado Springs, and Barrie Schwortz, who runs the interactive Web site www.shroud.com, reported a significant increase in calls or visits since the movie came out. "This is normally a busy time of the year for us, but there's been about a 40 percent increase" in phone calls, said...

IT'S been called the longest-running hoax in history - an 800-year-old religious riddle that's taken in popes, scientists and believers from all faiths. The Turin Shroud has been either worshipped as divine proof that Christ was resurrected from the grave or dismissed as a fraud created by medieval forgers. But new evidence suggests the shroud might be genuine after all. (I COULD NOT GET THE PICTURE TO SHOW THAT IS ON THE London Mirror SITE?) HAUNTING: The face on the shroud As Mel Gibson's film The Passion Of The Christ rekindles interest in Jesus, stitching on the shroud which could...

IT'S been called the longest-running hoax in history - an 800-year-old religious riddle that's taken in popes, scientists and believers from all faiths.The Turin Shroud has been either worshipped as divine proof that Christ was resurrected from the grave or dismissed as a fraud created by medieval forgers.But new evidence suggests the shroud might be genuine after all. HAUNTING: The face on the shroudAs Mel Gibson's film The Passion Of The Christ rekindles interest in Jesus, stitching on the shroud which could have been created only during the messiah's lifetime has been uncovered.At the same time, tests from 1988 that...

Shroud of Turin history presented in UpstateRetired surgeon relays his nearly 40 years of research on the Shroud of TurinBy SHEILA OJENDYK GREENVILLE — Dr. William E. Rabil has no doubt that the Shroud of Turin is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. Rabil, a retired general surgeon from Winston-Salem, N.C., began studying the shroud in the late 1950s and has been lecturing about it for nearly 40 years. He made two slide presentations to parishioners at St. Mary Church on March 6. Rabil began with a brief history of the shroud. After the crucifixion, the shroud was originally hidden...

A ". . . second paper is titled, "The Sermon of Gregory Referendarius, (PDF file, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)" by Mark Guscin, a man familiar to many of you as the editor of the British Society for the Turin Shroud (BSTS) Newsletter. In this extremely important and just completed paper, Mark, an expert linguist and historian, translates (from the original Greek) the sermon given by Gregory Referendarius in 944. The sermon was pronounced on the occasion of the arrival of the Image of Edessa in Constantinople and was translated into English from the only known surviving manuscript of the sermon,...

PYROLYSIS/MASS SPECTROMETRY APPLIED TO THE SHROUD OF TURIN Raymond N. Rogers Fellow University of California, Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM, USA ©2004 Raymond N. Rogers All Rights Reserved Our primary goal in undertaking pyrolysis-MS analyses on samples from the Shroud of Turin was the detection of impurities (e.g., painting materials). Most of the structural materials and probable impurities in Shroud samples were carbohydrates. We wanted to see traces of materia ls that were not carbohydrates. The samples were run at the Midwest Center for Mass Spectrometry (MCMS), University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This is a National Science Foundation "Center of...

Shroud of germsStephen Mattingly believes the Turin shroud was 'painted' by bacteria from a dying man's body. Laura Spinney meets the Catholic microbiologist challenging the medieval hoax theory Laura Spinney Thursday June 12, 2003The GuardianThe image of a tall, bearded man bearing the marks of crucifixion that adorn the Turin shroud has never been adequately explained. Those who have attempted to answer the vexed question of the shroud's origins have often found themselves accused of poor science, even vested interests. So it is a brave man who enters the fray with a new and ultimately unprovable theory. But a respected...

Shroud of Turin Tonight's guest Mark Antonacci will present evidence about the controversial Shroud. Mark Antonacci , author of Resurrection of the Shroud, says new tests will prove that the Shroud of Turin is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. He also claims that scientific tests can be performed on the Shroud, on blood, pollen, and cloth samples that refute the cloth’s controversial carbon dating. turn your radios on,at coast to coast tonight 10pm to 2am some stations repeat show until 5am.

The Shroud of Turin is an ancient piece of fine linen, 14 feet 3 inches long by 3 feet 7 inches wide, with the front and back images of a male who has been scourged, beaten, crowned with thorns, crucified, and pierced in the heart in a manner consistent with the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth as described in Scripture. The last information that most Christians have on the Shroud of Turin is from the 1988 carbon 14 dating studies which announced world-wide, on the basis of a test on a single sample from the Shroud by three laboratories, that...

One Christmas, when I was very young, my father gave me a chemistry set. I remember the metal box filled with little bottles of chemicals, test tubes, stirring rods and a clamp for holding test tubes over a small alcohol burner. That Christmas morning my father and I set up the chemistry set on the kitchen counter and tried some of the experiments described in a book that came with the set. I remember one of the experiments in particular because, now looking back on it, I think it had a profound impact on my life. It was probably...

A “No Parking” sign posted to keep the street in front of a South Alpine home clear of unwelcome vehicles has done just the opposite, with many local residents claiming to see the face of Jesus Christ in dark patterning on the sign. Pilgrims and curiosity seekers make the trip to the home of Luisa Ibarra, 610 W. Avenue I, nightly to discern the “image” in the sign. According to Ibarra, owner of the residence across from the old Centennial School, a friend of her grandson, Michael Carrillo, first noticed the image. “His friend asked if we had noticed the...

The link is to an open letter written by Shroud of Turin historian Daniel Porter to John Dominic Crossan, who is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. He is a fellow and a former co-chair of the Jesus Seminar. Professor Crossan has published works suggesting that Jesus Christ was not buried because peasants, which he maintains Jesus was, would not have been able to afford a tomb and that crucified peasants would have been allowed to rot on the cross or fed to the dogs. The letter is an excellent thumbnail review of the scholarship and...

RESTORATION OF SHROUD OF TURIN IS COMPLETED Patches and Additions RemovedTURIN, Italy, SEPT. 22, 2002 (Zenit.org).- The figure of the crucified man imprinted on the Shroud of Turin can now be more clearly seen, following its restoration by experts.At the official presentation of the restored shroud Saturday, Cardinal Severino Poletto, archbishop of Turin, explained that the purpose of the work was to guarantee the conservation of the cloth. The work involved the removal of patches sewn on the shroud 470 years ago.The cardinal, who is the relic's pontifical custodian, said that the restoration was carried out with the permission of...

TURIN, Italy (AP) - Experts performed a top-secret restoration of the Shroud of Turin, removing centuries' old patches and a replacing a backing sewn centuries ago onto what some say was the burial cloth of Jesus, Church officials announced Saturday. AP Photo The restoration was carried out with explicit Vatican ( news - web sites) permission, and aimed only to protect and document the artifact. The project consisted of three main elements: the removal of patches and a backing sewn onto the Shroud in the 16th century; a digital scan of both sides; and photo documentation. The restoration was done...

Restored Shroud Unveiled Photograph © 2002 Archdiocese of Turin As I reported in August, a major restoration of the Shroud of Turin was undertaken by its owners in June-July 2002. All thirty of the patches sewn into the cloth in 1534 by the Poor Clare nuns to repair the damage caused by the 1532 fire were removed, allowing the first unrestricted view of the actual holes burned into the cloth by the fire. It appears that some of the most seriously charred areas around the burn holes were also removed during the restoration. The backing cloth (known as the Holland...

The Shroud of Turin is a centuries old linen cloth that bears the image of a crucified man. A man that millions believe to be Jesus of Nazareth. Is it really the cloth that wrapped his crucified body, or is it simply a medieval forgery, a hoax perpetrated by some clever artist? Modern, twentieth century science has completed hundreds of thousands of hours of detailed study and intense research on the Shroud. It is, in fact, the single most studied artifact in human history, and we know more about it today than we ever have before. And yet, the...

Abstract: In 1988, Carbon-14 findings from three Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (AMS) Labs independently dated a sample removed from the Shroud of Turin: unarguably the most widely studied linen cloth in history. The dates reported ranged between 1260 -1390 A.D.; thus, leading to the conclusion that the cloth originated in the middle ages. This paper, previously presented on August 28, 2000 at the Worldwide Congress "Sindone 2000" in Orvieto, Italy, presents evidence that the sample tested by the three AMS labs contained a "patch" of material from the 16th Century(!). The authors examine the theory that this extraneous material was skillfully...

WHISTLEBLOWER MAGAZINE Evidence of the risen Christ? Special Easter report sheds new light on reputed burial cloths of Jesus -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: March 12, 2002 1:08 p.m. Eastern © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com The March edition of WND's acclaimed monthly magazine, Whistleblower concludes with an in-depth and stunning report on the Shroud of Turin – the 14-foot-long piece of linen believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth. The most studied artifact in human history, the image of a crucified man mysteriously emblazoned upon it – in a way modern technology has been unable to duplicate – is breathtaking....