Shroud Of Turin: Study Says Shroud Real

The exact origins of the Turin Shroud remain a great mystery, but scientists are now disputing the long-held belief that the religious artifact is a medieval forgery. Italian researchers at the National Agency for New Technologies

Scientists believe the image on the Shroud of Turin, thought to be the burial shroud of Jesus Christ, was created by an ultraviolet "flash of light." However, this technology was not available prior to the 20th Century.

By Richard Hartley-parkinson But now, a group of scientists say that the Shroud of Turin could actually be Christ's burial robe despite years of tests proving the contrary. Using a series of advanced experiments, Italian researchers say that the

Myths and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology," a book that debunks many popular unproveable historical claims, such as the Cardiff Giant, Piltdown Man, the Shroud of Turin and Noah's Ark. The book is now in its eighth printing.

The most persistent of all these fakes has been the famed Shroud of Turin. Supposedly the burial shroud of Jesus, it was acquired, possibly from Constantinople, by the French knight, Geoffroy de Charny, who built a church to house it in 1355 only for