Posted on 08/01/2025 6:02:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
For centuries, devout Christians have flocked to the Italian city of Turin to pay their respects to one of the most famous relics in the world.
The Shroud of Turin is a piece of linen, measuring 14ft 5in by 3ft 7in, that bears a faint image of the front and back of a man.
Many believe that this image was created when Jesus was wrapped in the venerated shroud shortly after his death on the cross 2,000 years ago.
However, according to a new study, the Shroud of Turin was never laid on Jesus' body.
Brazilian 3D designer and researcher Cicero Moraes, an expert in reconstructing historical faces, says that the shroud is nothing more than a 'masterpiece of Christian art'.
Mr Moraes used digital modelling software to examine how cloth drapes over the human body compared to a low, flat sculpture of a body.
These results, published this week in the journal Archaeometry, show that the shroud's distinctive pattern could only have been produced by a sculpture.
In his paper, Mr Moraes wrote: 'The Shroud's image is more consistent with an artistic low-relief representation than with the direct imprint of a real human body.'
New analysis shows that the images on the Shroud of Turin (centre) could only have been produced by laying the cloth over a flat sculpture (right) rather than over a human body (left)
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LOL. What a LIE.
He’s using computer and interpolative tools but hasn’t shown a true working example...the real proof would come if they tested the computers results against the actual doing. Take a shroud and drape it over a very detailed sculpture super heated in such away to produce the same image as what is found on the shrowd. Paint won’t do it...it would smudge. The Shrowd image was not paint but a thin charring as though it were a flash image produced from an intense light source.
Otherwise this article is bunk full of digital flatulent vaporware speculation. He was making a speculation based on results colored by parameters he personaly programmed into software. Now he needs to find a way to reproduce in real life what the software is suggesting. I suspect he can’t do it.
My family and I attended a three day seminar on the Shroud and there is no way I would or could say it's a fraud.
Many objects were kept in secret to protect them. They were often moved around in secret. Sometimes objects got into the wrong hands, but something prevailed upon them to pass the objects to the right hands. Finally, things ended up in churches, though they often got stolen or destroyed too. Look up crown jewels of different royal families. Same stories.
Indeed. And I think the subtle word choice was intentional “Reveals” vs. “claims to prove.” They can get back to me once they’ve generated a real, not a virtual sculpture, and actually replicated the shroud-like image onto it
A whole lot of highly qualified experts have said otherwise, but I guess if a 3D designer from Brazil says it’s not, all those smart guys are wrong.
Christianity is not about relics, anyway.
Say, does anybody know what a 3D designer is?
At the Daily Mail, perhaps. But an interesting lecture with link to a PowerPoint presentation is suggested. ( Circa 2 hours in length, but most detailed )
Two New Findings That Mohammed Didn't Exist | Dr. Jay Smith 9 July 2025
Passing through the cloth at the moment of transition would be equivalent of draping the body lying stationary.
But, you notice in the left image the figure’s hips are extremely wide, as if the image maker were incompetent at drawing the human figure or trying to show something to make his point.
This leaves too much unanswered.
Science is science ONLY when it’s Politically Correct.
I fear I wasn’t clear enough in my post #11. Whether or not Mohammed existed - that was not my point. My point was that the Daily Mail would be too afraid to bring the topic up for discussion.
Mainstream media rules:
Bashing Christian beliefs: That’s okay.
Bashing Jewish beliefs: That’s okay.
Bashing Muslim beliefs: Forbidden!
Anyway, thanks for the replies.
Right On!
If the shroud is ‘real’, I’ve thought it must be due to something like your theory.
I saw a nail from the cross of Jesus in a museum in Vienna.
St. Peter’s Cathedral in Trier, Germany, which I visited years ago, holds the robe that Jesus wore at the time of his crucifixion although it wasn’t on display at the time of my visit. It was woven by his mother Mary and won by a Roman soldier who successfully gambled for it.
Just the latest attempt to debunk it. I remember when it was reported that it was fake because there was an imprint of a coin, and the text on the coin was backwards.
I don’t see how you jump to ‘worship of graven images’.
It’s like people saying that Catholics ‘worship’ the Virgin Mary,
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