The scientists also claim that forensic evidence supports the cloth's authenticity. They say the stains on the Shroud are real human blood and their placement is consistent with severe injuries ...

The Turin Shroud is a linen cloth measuring 1.21m by 4.42m believed by some to bear the impression of Jesus Christ. For the first time in a decade it has gone on display in Turin. Here we have ...

But researchers have made several attempts to figure out when the linen cloth was produced. A 1988 test placed the shroud firmly in the Middle Ages, between A.D. 1260 and A.D. 1390. But a recent ...

According to Italian journalist Andrea Tornielli, the three separate tests, when averaged, showed the linen fibers of the shroud to have been woven into cloth around 33 B.C., give or take 250 years, ...

The shroud, a linen cloth many believe is the burial shroud of Jesus Christ and bears his image, traditionally draws thousands of pilgrims during rare public displays. While there will be no physical ...

Christians have long believed that the treasured relic was the burial cloth of ... of the Shroud of Turin obtained by The Post showed the man with his eyes closed and mouth slightly parted in ...

The Catholic Church takes no official position on the authenticity of the shroud, which is kept at Turin Cathedral. Ever since radiocarbon dating in 1989 proclaimed the cloth to be 700 years old ...