What is the Shroud of Turin?
The Shroud of Turin is a linen cloth kept in the Cathedral of Turin, Italy, since the late 1500s that bears a faint life-size human image venerated by some as Christ’s burial cloth and that the imprint is of the dead body of Jesus. To believers it was divine proof the Christ was resurrected from the grave, to doubters it was evidence of human gullibility and one of the greatest hoaxes in the history of art. In 1988, an international team of scientific experts performed radiocarbon dating on snippets of the Shroud of Turin. The results showed that the famous cloth did not date back to the time of Christ’s crucifixion in the 1st century A.D. In fact, the cloth seemed to have been manufactured sometime between 1260 and 1390 A.D. In the years since then, Shroud experts and other investigators have called into question the accuracy of the dating. Some have argued that damage to the Shroud in 1532 during a fire and microbes and other living organisms might in some way have changed the chemic
