Turin Shroud (TS) is a linen cloth 4.4 m long and 1.1 m wide which shows two, udfront and back images of a man scourged, crowned with thorns and crucified, who died on a udcross and was stabbed in the side with a lance after his death. The Catholic Christian tradition udidentifies this Man as Jesus Christ resurrected after dead, but not all are unanimous in this udidentification, partly because science has not been able to give definitive answers. To try to udimprove a bit the inconclusive answers to which the Science is arrived, a Research Project udentitled: “Multidisciplinary analysis applied to the Turin Shroud: study of the body image, of udpossible ambient pollution and of micro-udparticles capable to characterize the linen fabric.” has udbeen assigned by the University of Padua (Italy) to the Author, who performed various studies udon this theme in collaboration with other experts, also of other Italian Universities. In reference udto the body image, that is not explainable by Science nor reprudoducible up to now, experi mental udtests based on Corona Discharge, produced by intense electric fields, have shown that it is udpossible to reproduce many of these very peculiar image features. Regarding the TS dating, udafter the demonstration that the 1988 radiocarbon result is not statistically reliable, probably udbecause of environmental pollution, alternative dating methods based on chemical and udmechanical tests showed that its age is compatible with the period in which Jesus Christ lived udin Palestine.
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