[bigcat00]

Thanks for an interesting post.

A layman's question....i.e., a dumb question, perhaps, but nonetheless...Would it be possible to retrieve human DNA from the Shroud? And could it be determined where the DNA originated? I realize the Shroud has probably had many hands upon it over the centuries, but what about one of the potions with the image?

[Swordmaker]

A layman's question....i.e., a dumb question, perhaps, but nonetheless...Would it be possible to retrieve human DNA from the Shroud? And could it be determined where the DNA originated? I realize the Shroud has probably had many hands upon it over the centuries, but what about one of the potions with the image?

The only dumb question is the unasked one.

Some broken strands of DNA have been recovered from the blood on the Shroud. Understandably, it is extremely degraded. Your point about "many hands" is good. Who knows who's DNA has been isolated? Is it one person's or many. There was a Science Fiction novel written several years ago about Cloning Jesus from DNA from the Shroud. The key word is "Fiction."

[Doctor Stochastic]

Yes and yes. I don't think this has been done.