from WND:
Study concludes mysterious linen cloth, believed by many to be burial cloth, is 2,000 years old
The Shroud of Turin, a mysterious linen cloth with a haunting image of a crucified man, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus, is a 2,000-year-old relic, a new study reveals.
That would make it possible that it is such a significant relic, contrary to other studies that have dated it hundreds of years newer.
A report from Newsweek said the journal Heritage has published a study by Italian researchers that ascribed the two-millennia-old age to the cloth.
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A radiocarbon study done in the 1980s suggested the linen dates to the 1200s or 1300s A.D., which would be about the time of the artifact’s first appearance in France, the report said.
But experts who worked on the study outlined by Heritage said the tests might have been flawed due to contamination of the tested material.
The report explained the newest details: “Such arguments revolving the contamination hypothesis have previously been challenged as well. In the Heritage study, lead researcher Liberato De Caro, from the Institute of Crystallography in Italy, and colleagues employed a novel method for dating ancient linen threads by inspecting their structural degradations using a technique known as Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering. This was applied to a small sample from the Shroud, which currently resides in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy.”
The study said the results showed the cloth was “compatible” with results from other linens dating to about 55-74 A.D.
The report said since the results differ from the conclusions of earlier carbon-dating, more tests are needed.
WND columnist Jerry Newcombe this year reported on the cloth, 14 feet by 3 feet, that “contains the image of a man who was badly scourged, was crucified, wore a crown of thorns and was stabbed in the chest with a Roman lance. Of course, all of these wounds fit what the Bible says happened to Jesus. Is the Shroud of Turin Jesus’ actual ‘clean linen shroud‘ given to Him in death by Joseph of Arimathea?”
He reported at the time experts, like the late Alan Whanger, M.D., of Duke Medical Center, confirmed the Shroud is “the most intensely studied single object in existence. There are probably 67 different fields of scientific and academic interests that have looked into the Shroud in one way in another.”
Further, he confirmed it is scientific proof “something so extraordinary happened that there doesn’t seem to be anything else in human history that would fit.”
