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Science 21 July 1978:
Vol. 201. no. 4352, pp. 235 - 239
DOI: 10.1126/science.201.4352.235
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The Mystery of the Shroud of Turin Challenges 20th-Century Science

BARBARA J. CULLITON

On the face of it, the very idea that the linen cloth in which Jesus Christ was wrapped in the tomb should have survived to this day would seem incredible. It demands even more of human credulity that the cloth bears a photographic likeness which would seem to be that of Jesus as he lay in the tomb. [From The Shroud of Turin by IAN WILSON]


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The Shroud of Turin: An Answer Is at Hand: After generations of speculations and argument, the true age of the Shroud has now been determined by radiocarbon methods; rumor has it that the answer is not 33 A.D..
M. M. WALDROP (1988)
Science 241, 1750-1751
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