

Garlaschelli, a co-author of the recent forensic study who works at the University of Pavia in Italy, has also published research on the Shroud of Turin before. and 220 C.E., a period covering Christ’s lifetime. In 2013, scientists in Italy used infrared light and spectroscopy to date it between 280 B.C.E. In 1988, scientists in Switzerland, England and the United States carbon-dated the Shroud of Turin and concluded that it originated in the Middle Ages between 12. Previous studies have come down on both sides of the debate. “That points to the artificial origin of these stains.” “If you look at the bloodstains as a whole, just as you would when working at a crime scene, you realize they contradict each other,” Borrini, who is a professor at Liverpool John Moores University in England, told Live Science. (Credit: Universal History Archive/Getty images) The Shroud of Turin, revealing details of a mans body. They published their findings in the Journal of Forensic Sciences on July 10, 2018. Using both human and synthetic blood, they were unable to find a single position in which the blood flowed onto experimental cloths to create the stain pattern on the Shroud of Turin.

Now, researchers are using forensic techniques to argue the blood stains on the shroud couldn’t have come from Christ.įorensic anthropologist Matteo Borrini and chemistry professor Luigi Garlaschelli used a live volunteer and a mannequin to study how blood from Jesus’ crucifixion and spear would have flowed onto his burial shroud. As recently as 2009, researchers discredited the Shroud of Turin by claiming they’d found Jesus’ “real” burial cloth. It’s not the only possible relic associated with Christ-others include a crown of thorns at the Notre-Dame Cathedral and Christ’s supposed foreskin, allegedly stolen from Calcata, Italy around 1983-but it’s produced one of the most heated debates. The Shroud of Turin, a 14-foot linen cloth bearing an image of a crucified man, first surfaced in 1354. However, new forensic research suggests the holy shroud might not be the real deal. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy, since 1578. One of the most famous candidates is the Shroud of Turin, so named because it has been housed in the Cathedral of St. Over the past several centuries, many people have claimed to have found Jesus’ original burial cloth.
