Scientists Make Major Breakthrough in Jesus Burial Cloth Analysis

The Shroud of Turin has caused debate for centuries, but a fresh discovery suggests it may be true.

The linen fabric is claimed to have been used to bury Jesus after his crucifixion, and it has a faint picture of a bearded man on the front and back.

Many Christians believe Jesus’ body is imprinted on the cloth, but detractors have questioned the Shroud’s accuracy since it was first displayed in the 1350s.

Scientific research on the fabric in the 1980s seemed to support the idea that the Shroud of Turin was used to shroud Jesus’ body.

The Jesus burial cloth was carbon-dated between 1260 and 1390 AD, hundreds of years after Christ’s death.

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However, Italian experts used a novel technology employing X-rays to date the material, and their findings suggest that it was created around 2,000 years ago, around the time Jesus lived and died.

According to MailOnline, scientists from Italy’s Institute of Crystallography of the National Research Council recently used wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS) in their research.

The approach determines the natural age of flax cellulose and translates it to time since production.

They claim that the times add up and lend credence to the hypothesis that the faint bloodstain of a bearded man with his arms clenched in front was left behind by Christ’s death.

According to the Bible, Joseph of Arimathea tied Jesus’ body in a linen shroud and placed him in a tomb, rolling a big stone to cover the entrance.

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Since 1578, the Shroud has been kept in the royal chapel of Turin’s San Giovanni Battista Cathedral in Italy.

The Jesus burial cloth appears to have faint, brownish pictures on the front and back, representing a thin guy with sunken eyes who was between 5ft 7 and 6ft tall.

Markings on the body match Jesus’ crucifixion wounds recounted in the Bible, which include thorn scars on the head, cuts on his back, and bleeding on his shoulders.

Researchers matched their findings to those from analyses of other linens discovered in Israel dating back to the first century.

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The study, published in the journal Heritage, said: ‘The data sets were fully compatible with comparable measurements obtained on linen samples whose dating, according to historical documents, is 55-74 AD, discovered at Masada, Israel [Herod’s famous fortress constructed on a limestone bedrock overlooking the Dead Sea].’

According to lead author Dr. Liberato De Caro, the 1988 test should be ruled inaccurate since “fabric samples typically subject to all kinds of damage, which cannot be completely removed from the dated specimen.”

‘If the sample is sufficiently cleaned, carbon-14 dating is reliable.

‘This may have been the case in 1988, as confirmed by experimental data indicating that going from the outer edges to the center of the sheet, along the longest side, results in a considerable rise in carbon-14.’