Shroud of Turin FAQ

Overall, this explanation ( chemical properties of the sample site ) is excellent. What it fails to note is how much new support there is for this theory, particularly the fact that John L. Brown, formerly Principal Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute's Energy and Materials Sciences Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology, independently and with different methods, including use of a Scanning Electron Microscope, confirmed many of Rogers’ findings. Of one particular set of microscopic images, he wrote,

This would appear to be obvious evidence of a medieval artisan’s attempt to dye a newly added repair region of fabric to match the aged appearance of the remainder of the Shroud.

See National Institute of Standards and Technology peer-reviewed paper

See ultraviolet and x-ray photographs

See suspicious cotton fibers suspicious

See statistical analysis

See documenting photographs

color of the image seen up close on the shroud`s fibers.
 

 

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