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  • 'Jesus-era' burial shroud found

    12/16/2009 6:53:57 PM PST · by JoeProBono · 24 replies · 1,335+ views
    bbc ^ | 16 December 2009 | Bethany Bell
    A team of archaeologists and scientists says it has, for the first time, found pieces of a burial shroud from the time of Jesus in a tomb in Jerusalem. The researchers, from Hebrew University and institutions in Canada and the US, said the shroud was very different from the controversial Turin Shroud. Some people believe the Turin Shroud to have been Christ's burial cloth, but others believe it is a fake. The newly found cloth has a simpler weave than Turin's, the scientists say. The body of a man wrapped in fragments of the shroud was found in a tomb...