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Article: The Turin Shroud.(Review) (book review)
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- History Today
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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TWELVE YEARS AGO, three separate laboratories unanimously came up with a radiocarbon dating of AD 1260-1390 and the Turin Shroud -- purportedly the cloth in which the body of Jesus was wrapped after being taken down from the cross, and on which an impression of his body and face miraculously remains -- was condemned as yet another medieval forgery: `Someone got a bit of linen, faked it up and flogged it,' in the words of Professor Edward Hall, then head of the Research Laboratory for Archaeology at Oxford. But since that time, further research, scientific, artistic and historical, has raised new questions. This autumn, while the faithful flock to Turin to see the Shroud on ...