The authenticity of the shroud of Turin has been disputed for centuries – and it has confounded science for decades. It’s widely thought to be a fake from medieval times, but no one has been able to figure out how it would have been created. Until now apparently. I’ve often wondered when science would finally claim to have cracked this case…

ROME — An Italian scientist says he has reproduced the Shroud of Turin, a feat that he says proves definitively that the linen some Christians revere as Jesus Christ’s burial cloth is a medieval fake.
The shroud, measuring 14 feet, 4 inches by 3 feet, 7 inches bears the image, eerily reversed like a photographic negative, of a crucified man some believers say is Christ.
“We have shown that is possible to reproduce something which has the same characteristics as the Shroud,” Luigi Garlaschelli, who is due to illustrate the results at a conference on the para-normal this weekend in northern Italy, said on Monday…

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