The mystery of how the Shroud image was created lies elsewhere. It dated a Viking horn as a "back to the future" anomaly: 2006 AD.ĭating debates aside, some that would debunk the Shroud as a medieval fraud claim that it is a painted image a claim that is quickly dispatched by simple investigations. The University of Arizona lab has had its own C-14 gaffs. Wolfli theorizes that soaps were the compromising factor. The results of the C-14 test set the age of the textile at 350 years old! Dr. Wolfli, head of the lab, ran a C-14 test on his mother-in-law's 50-year-old tablecloth. Famous and often hilarious examples are cited that credibly argue that carbon dating may be among the least accurate methodologies for assessing the age of the Shroud.Īn example comes from the Swiss lab that participated in the carbon-14 dating on the Shroud. Those researchers whose own disciplines point to the Shroud as an authentic artifact of the first century call into question a near religious fervor for the accuracy of carbon dating. Some scientists have objected to his findings, although the inventor of AMS, Dr. Garza-Valdes claims the coating continues to be produced on the surface of the Shroud.
This calcium carbonate varnish-like substance compromises any accurate dating of the linen fibers that are coated with the material. The author of "The DNA of God," Garza-Valdes notes that a biopolymer coating manufactured by bacteria and fungus is notoriously difficult to clean. In the decade since that carbon dating threw Shroud research into a new whirl of studies, additional evidence now calls into question the process of carbon dating on certain materials textiles in particular.Ī fascinating finding comes from Dr.
Some called into question the integrity of the samples had they been cut from an area charred during a fire in 1532, thus compromising the carbon testing? Others even questioned whether there were hidden motives among the lab researchers after all, the dates were suspiciously close to the historical date when the revered linen was first discovered in Europe during the 1350s in the sleepy hamlet of Lirey, France. Earlier scientific examinations, medical and historical studies had placed the Shroud in the first century. Many in the academic and scientific community were stunned. 13,1988, the long-awaited press conference revealed that all three labs concurred: The Shroud was dated 1260-1390 AD. Three international laboratories were selected to run the newly refined accelerated mass spectrometry (AMS) method of carbon dating: Oxford University's Research Laboratory for Archeology and the History of Art, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona at Tucson. The samples were taken from the front foot area of the14-foot-long linen, on which the faint image is laid out in a head to head, dorsal and frontal view. Luke the Evangelist in Padua, Italy.Īt the heart of the Shroud controversy is the validity of the carbon dating performed on three samples snipped from the Shroud in April 1988. Scientific debate over the authenticity of the Shroud continues amid new reports of the carbon-14 confirmation on the relics of St. During the 10 weeks that the ancient linen, carrying a mysterious image of a crucified man, has been on display in Turin, Italy, millions of believers and skeptics alike have gazed on the tortured figure that some claim is Jesus of Nazareth. The Jubilee exhibition of the Shroud of Turin has closed after the longest public exhibition of the artifact in this century.
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