The face from the Shroud of Turin
Some years ago, I researched and wrote a piece for Christian History Institute in which I brought out a number of facts which suggested the Shroud of Turin was a hoax. Holy Shroud, Mysterious Relic.) These included contemporary statements, radio-carbon testing, pigmentation errors, and misleading reports on the shroud’s pollen content. A couple shroud believers wrote me angry emails.
My skeptical approach was right. Luigi Garlaschelli, an Italian professor of inorganic chemistry, has reproduced the shroud, using only methods available in the 13th-century. Carbon dating tests had established that century as the most probable era for its creation.
Garlaschelli was not the first to produce such an image. In Spring, 1982 Skeptical Inquirer also printed pictures of images reproduced using 13th-century techniques.
