"An Italian scientist says he has reproduced the Shroud of Turin, a feat that he says proves definitively that the linen some Christians revere as Jesus Christ's burial cloth is a medieval fake."

"We have shown that is possible to reproduce something which has the same characteristics as the Shroud," Luigi Garlaschelli, who is due to illustrate the results at a conference on the para-normal this weekend in northern Italy, said on Monday."

Above excerpt and additional info. found at http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091005/sc_nm/us_italy_shroud

"Garlaschelli, a professor of chemistry at the University of Pavia, said in an interview with La Repubblica daily that his team used a linen woven with the same technique as the shroud and artificially aged by heating it in an oven and washing it with water."

"The shroud has been strongly debated within the scientific community. Some researchers claim that patches used in the Middle Ages to repair the cloth after a fire altered the carbon-dating results."

"Another study, by the Hebrew University, concluded that pollen and plant images on the shroud showed it originated in the area around Jerusalem sometime before the eighth century."

Previous excerpts and additional info. found at http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx/world/europe/APNews/Europe/20091005/U_EU-Italy-Shroud-Of-Turin?pageid=1

Related info. & video presentation can be found at a previous post on this forum, http://www.dailystrength.org/groups/biblical-archaeology/discussions/messages/6767075

Commentary: Note that the original Shroud of Turin has been reported to have a 3-D quality to it, in addition to the additional piece known as the Sudarium which collaborates with the Shrouds purpose and history.

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