12/22/11 SCIENTISTS SAY "SHROUD of TURIN" NOT a FORGERY: "... attempting to replicate the stunning Christ-like image exhibited in the Shroud The findings, released in November by Italy’s National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Development, showed they “achieved a very superficial, Shroud-like coloration of linen yarns,” according to a report on msnbc.com It fell way short of the characteristics of the real Shroud, however. They concluded therefore that Jesus’s supposed burial cloth could not have been doctored in therefore that Jesus’s supposed burial cloth could not have been doctored in Medieval times, as has been theorized during past studies, some of which relied on radiocarbon dating of fiber samples. radiocarbon dating of fiber samples“We have shown that the most advanced technology available today is unable to replicate all the characteristics of the Shroud image,” lead researcher Paolo D Lazzaro told msnbc.com in an email.“As a consequence, we may argue it appears unlikely a forger may have done this image with technologies available in the Middle Ages or earlier.' ..." http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/shroud-turin-t-a-fake-researchers-scientists-unable-replicate-cloth-christ-like-image-article-1.995661

SCIENTISTS SAY "SHROUD of TURIN" NOT a FORGERY:
"... attempting to replicate the stunning Christ-like image exhibited in the Shroud The findings, released in November by Italy’s National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Development, showed they “achieved a very superficial, Shroud-like coloration of linen yarns,” according to a report on msnbc.com It fell way short of the characteristics of the real Shroud, however. They concluded therefore that Jesus’s supposed burial cloth could not have been doctored in therefore that Jesus’s supposed burial cloth could not have been doctored in Medieval times, as has been theorized during past studies, some of which relied on radiocarbon dating of fiber samples. radiocarbon dating of fiber samples“We have shown that the most advanced technology available today is unable to replicate all the characteristics of the Shroud image,” lead researcher Paolo D Lazzaro told msnbc.com in an email.“As a consequence, we may argue it appears unlikely a forger may have done this image with technologies available in the Middle Ages or earlier.' ..."
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