PARIS (Reuters) - The Shroud of Turin, which some Christians believe is Jesus Christ's burial cloth, may not be the fake scientific tests
have concluded because they analysed a patch put on it, according to a U.S. scientist.
Raymond N. Rogers of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico published a paper this week arguing that new dating tests
showed the 1988 tests were from a cloth patch probably sewn on after a fire damaged the Shroud in 1532.
The linen Shroud measuring 4.4 by 1.2 metres bears the image, eerily reversed like a photographic negative, of a crucified man believers
say was Christ.
One of Christianity's most disputed relics, it is locked away at Turin Cathedral in Italy and rarely exhibited. It was last on display in 2000 and
may not be shown again until 2025.
Radiocarbon dating tests by laboratories in Oxford, Zurich and Tucson, Arizona in 1988 caused a sensation by dating it from between 1260
and 1390. Sceptics said it was a hoax, possibly made to attract the profitable medieval pilgrimage business.
But Rogers, writing in the scientific review Thermochimica Acta on Friday, wrote: "The dye found on the radiocarbon sample was not used
in Europe before about 1291."
"The radiocarbon sample was thus not part of the original cloth and is invalid for determining the age of the shroud," he wrote in the article
on the Internet (www.sciencedirect.com).
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