look at how closely the image on the shroud lines up with this ancient icon of Jesus
http://www.shroudofturin4journalists.com/pantocrator.htm
I couldn’t possibly be less impressed by a web site. Yes, certain features line up... as they do with ALL human beings.
For instance: Sure, the icon also has a long nose; most icons have long noses; many Jews have long noses. But the icons nose is much narrower, and lacks the bump in the middle, which is very characteristic of shroud. S o what do the two noses have in common? O my! They’re both in the middle of the face!
There are hundreds of such examples......and you miss the point.
The contention of most Shroud scholars (I know some of the top ones on the planet) is that the icons were based upon the image on the Shroud (it used to be displayed far more often than it is today). I’ll go you one better......even facial features of many ‘gods’ of other religions map to the features on the Shroud amazingly well; points of congruence are far beyond the realm of “coincidence”.