Yes I have look at the web site. I have heard much of that before. I beleive that it is not christ image on the shoud. The shoud has never toughed christ. It was found in turkey in an old church as to were it was before that I or nobody else knows.
For one it has the image of christ as the long haired man I believe he might have had a beard as many rabbi's did in thet day. But I believe the Lord had short hair as was the style of the day. back them.
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.
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"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
Actually "The Resurrection of the Shroud" goes through the history of the Shroud, when it was known as the Mandylion, and the Image of Odessa. It can be traced right back to the 1st century. The book is a blockbuster--I bought it after I saw the author on EWTN Booknotes with Doug Keck.