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Article: TINY POLLEN GRAINS CAST BIG LIGHT ON SHROUD MYSTERY.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 3, 1999
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A new analysis of pollen grains and plant images on the Shroud of Turin places its origin to Jerusalem before the 8th century.
The study gives a boost to those who believe the shroud is the burial cloth of Jesus and refutes a 1988 examination by scientists that concluded the shroud was made between 1260 and 1390.
The earlier study also indicated the shroud came from Europe rather than the Holy Land.
``We have identified by images and by pollen grains species on the shroud restricted to the vicinity of Jerusalem,'' botany Professor Avinoam Danin of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem said yesterday during the International Botanical Congress here. ...