[ArrogantBustard]

Having discovered it IN THAT AREA kind of moots the point of doing such a pollen study.

Not so. Since the "new" burial cloth was found near Jerusalem, a pollen study of it would serve as a sort of ground truth regarding what sort of pollen would be found on burial cloths in that area.

A comparison of its pollen burden to that on the "Turin" shroud would be interesting.

[Quix]

GOOD POINT.

I was thinking in terms of pollen verifying that it was once in that area.