[piytar]

Wow. You nailed all the key points.

Anyone who thinks some medieval forger could come up with all that — please private message me — I have a bridge in New York City that I need to sell..

[Jamestown1630]

That’s mainly what has fascinated me. I just don’t see how it could be forged, back then. People have tried to explain how it was done, but they don’t convince.

[SkyDancer]

Plus no pigment of any kind. The other thing is: on a painting the closer you look the more detail you see; with the Shroud, you have to stand way back to see any kind of detail. The closer you get the more it becomes just a smudge of dust looking stuff.

The other thing is: The nail holes are in his wrist not his palms. In Jewish culture, the hand goes from the palm to the elbow. The nails would have ripped out of the palms but not the wrist.