[Alberta's Child]

I don't know enough about carbon dating to comment one way or another, but I do know that testing the Shroud using any such method is inherently risky because of the attempts that were made to repair the Shroud after it was damaged in a fire back in the Middle Ages.

[clyde260]

I want to believe, and wish this were the real deal, but here is my dilema:

The first thing we learned in navigation class is that maps are flat, and the earth is round. Take a round ball say, and unpeel it and try and lay it flat. Can't do it?

If the shroud really got it's image by resting on a round head, when laid flat the image on the cloth would be distorted right?