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Scientists Find Errors in Dating of Shroud of Turin
More articles on this topic: Shroud of TurinBelieve That Medieval-Era Mending Skewed Results
Zenit, Aug. 20, 2002
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ROME, AUG. 20, 2002 (Zenit.org) (http://www.zenit.org).- New studies reveal that the 1988 carbon-14 dating analysis of the Shroud of Turin did not take into consideration the mending done to the cloth in the Middle Ages.
“The mending was medieval, not the shroud,” wrote Orazio Petrosillo in the Roman newspaper Il Messaggero. Petrosillo is the author of several books on the cloth widely believed to be the burial linen of Jesus.
Petrosillo explained that during the Middle Ages it was very common to use a type of sewing — invisible to the naked eye — to reinforce fabrics of artistic or historical value.
According to Petrosillo, whose thesis is based on studies by U.S. scientists Sue Benford and Joseph Marino, researchers from laboratories at Oxford, England; Tucson, Arizona; and Zurich, Switzerland, examined the shroud in 1988 without realizing it was mended with linen in the 16th century. That study concluded the shroud was made sometime between 1260 and 1390.
The new thesis was articulated after scientists presented fabric experts with a series of photographs of one of the small pieces of cloth of the shroud taken in 1988 for carbon-14 dating, as well as a section which was not used. The three experts agreed that there are different weaves in the sections analyzed.
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Petrosillo concluded that the shroud continues to raise scientific questions calling for new and more adequate study.
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