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Shroud Dating Challenged

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Monday, June 01, 2009 11:56 AM Comments (0)

Rome Reports has posted this interesting video about flaws in the carbon-14 tests that indicated the Shroud of Turin is not the burial cloth of Jesus.

But Italian scientists now have concluded the 1988 tests were conducted improperly and therefore that their findings — that the shroud is a forgery created in the medieval period — should be rejected and new tests conducted.

Other scientific tests conducted on the shroud indicate it was made in the Holy Land at around the time of the death of Christ.

“Until now, the carbon-14 test was the only method that rendered the shroud a fabrication,” the Rome Reports video notes. “All other tests pointed the other way, suggesting the shroud was the original cloth that wrapped the body of Christ.”

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