IN the world I grew up in, the Shroud of Turin was spoken about as a certifiable fake. I would have been seven going on eight in 1988, the year when the Carbon-14 tests dated the Shroud to the whereabouts of 1260–1390 AD, with 95% confidence, LOL. Turns out, the Medieval theory didn’t age so well, as if carbon dating was ever a good idea to begin with. The Shroud had narrowly escaped the intense heat of two separate fires, thereby affecting the molecules of the Shroud. If that had an effect on the dating process, throwing it off by an entire millennium, then how do you suppose the radiocarbon dating of organic materials said to be tens of thousands of years pans out? Seriously, I am looking forward to the day when carbon dating is finally filed away in the pseudoscience wing of the neighborhood of make believe.
The reason you’ve arrived is to hear the latest News, some of which I’ve already given away. It involves Italy’s Institute of Crystallography of the National Research Council, or IC for short. Dr. Liberato de Caro and a team of Scientists from the said group applied what’s called a Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering to eight small samples of fabric from the cloth. This process allowed researchers to examine the Garment at a microscopic level, enabling them to determine the time the Shroud was actually manufactured. Will you be happy to know that the results are in? The fabric is a match with fabric that is confirmed to have come from the siege of Masada in 55-74 AD. Which is to say, the Shroud was manufactured approximately 2000 years ago. It is authentic.
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