The Shroud of Turin

Fanti, Giulio; Malfi, Pierandrea

doi:10.1201/b18627

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“…The samples used in this study for DNA investigations are sub-sets of the dust particles vacuumed from the back of the Turin Shroud (TS), which were kindly provided in 2010 by Giulio Fanti (Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Padua, Italy), who in turn received them personally from Giovanni Riggi di Numana in 2006 12 18 (see also Supplementary Document S1 ). In particular, four samples were originally collected on filters in 1978 from four distinct areas of the back of TS, corresponding to the hands (filter E), face (filter F), feet (filter G) and glutei (filter H) of the TS male image 12 .…”

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Uncovering the sources of DNA found on the Turin Shroud

Barcaccia

Galla

Achilli

et al. 2015

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The Turin Shroud is traditionally considered to be the burial cloth in which the body of Jesus Christ was wrapped after his death approximately 2000 years ago. Here, we report the main findings from the analysis of genomic DNA extracted from dust particles vacuumed from parts of the body image and the lateral edge used for radiocarbon dating. Several plant taxa native to the Mediterranean area were identified as well as species with a primary center of origin in Asia, the Middle East or the Americas but introduced in a historical interval later than the Medieval period. Regarding human mitogenome lineages, our analyses detected sequences from multiple subjects of different ethnic origins, which clustered into a number of Western Eurasian haplogroups, including some known to be typical of Western Europe, the Near East, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian sub-continent. Such diversity does not exclude a Medieval origin in Europe but it would be also compatible with the historic path followed by the Turin Shroud during its presumed journey from the Near East. Furthermore, the results raise the possibility of an Indian manufacture of the linen cloth.

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confidence: 99%

Uncovering the sources of DNA found on the Turin Shroud

Barcaccia

Galla

Achilli

et al. 2015

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“…On the other hand, others still think that it is a fake, referencing the 1988 radiocarbon result that debatably declared it Medieval. More recent studies in fact demonstrated that it is compatible with the age in which Jesus lived in Palestine [6,7].…”

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“…It is interesting to comment a piece of John's Gospel (20,(6)(7)(8) A part from the unhappy translation of "strips of linen" from the Greek "othonia" that simply indicates "linens" at plural, probably in reference to the set of TS, chin bandage, sudarium, and, perhaps, also rolled linens put at the corpse's sides, the best explanation for the authors is the following: probably both a sudarium wrapping the face to better protect it and a chin bandage to close the mouth of Jesus (placed, around the chin and the top of the head) were used, see fi gure 6.…”

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“…Therefore from this point onwards they will rename Jesus the TS Man. This paper specifi cally highlights the correlation between Jesus and the sufferings infl icted to Him, crucifi xion included, after looking at His posture blocked by an evident rigor mortis, coherent with a death on a cross [6] and by the wounds both on the wrists and on the feet that are coherent with a nailing.…”

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New Light on the Sufferings and the Burial of the Turin Shroud Man

Bevilacqua¹,

Fanti²,

D’Arienzo³

2017

Open J Trauma

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This paper presents news concerning the transportation of the whole cross on the shoulders and the falling mode of the Turin Shroud (TS) Man on the ground that explains the detected traumas. These news base themselves on the hypothesis that the TS Man is Jesus of Nazareth.Based on historical information and on a structural analysis, after a reconstruction of the Roman "Tau" cross, a life-size sample of it has been built in order to study its compatibility with some traumas visible on the TS.Also discussed are the medical implications caused by a violent blunt trauma from behind, to the neck, chest and right shoulder including the etio-pathogenesis of the head posture of Jesus on the cross represented in traditional iconography. Finally, additional news is included regarding bloodstains like the "blood belt", the "mattress" of spices and the sudarium used as chin bandage.

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“…By contrast to the 14 C results, essentially all other data on the Shroud, including floral, numismatic, fabric and historical data, point to a much earlier origin. Recent research by Fanti and Malfi using both FT-IR and Raman spectroscopy and mechanical property testing [5] date the Shroud to Christ's time. Fanti and Malfi's dating results are: FTIR 300 BC ± 400 yrs, Raman 200 BC ± 500 yrs, and mechanical testing 372 AD ± 400 yrs [5].…”

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On Radiocarbon Dating of the Shroud of Turin

McAvoy¹

2021

IJA

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In the same issue of Nature that the radiocarbon dating results for the Shroud of Turin were published, Phillips hypothesized that neutron radiation could have altered the reported dates. In addition to making the Shroud appear younger than its true age, neutron radiation would have produced significant amounts of radioactive chlorine 36 Cl in the Shroud. Two earlier papers showed that ultraviolet (uv) fluorescence intensity is non-uniform over the surface of the Shroud. The right side of the Shroud fluoresces more than the left side, and the Shroud's dorsal side fluoresces more than its frontal side. The highest uv fluorescence occurs in the center of the Shroud's dorsal side. The shape of the Shroud's average uv fluorescence intensity spatial variations very closely matches the shape of the spatial radiocarbon dating variations calculated by Rucker in his computer simulation of Phillips' neutron hypothesis. Experimental results given here for neutron irradiated modern linen demonstrate that such radiation increases the uv fluorescence intensity of linen. Experimental results also show that neutron radiation greatly increases the 36 Cl content of modern linen. Thus, neutron radiation can explain both the Shroud's anomalous radiocarbon dating and its unique spatial uv fluorescence properties. In order to test Phillips' hypothesis additional research on the Shroud is required, and suggestions for such follow up research are given.

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The Shroud of Turin

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Uncovering the sources of DNA found on the Turin Shroud

Uncovering the sources of DNA found on the Turin Shroud

New Light on the Sufferings and the Burial of the Turin Shroud Man

On Radiocarbon Dating of the Shroud of Turin

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