It's been called the longest-running hoax in history - an 800-year-old religious riddle that's taken in popes, scientists and believers from all faiths.The Turin Shroud has been either worshipped as divine proof that Christ was resurrected from the grave or dismissed as a fraud created by medieval forgers.But new evidence suggests the shroud might be genuine after all.As Mel Gibson's film The Passion Of The Christ rekindles interest in Jesus, stitching on the shroud which could have been created only during the messiah's lifetime has been uncovered.At the same time, tests from 1988 that dated the shroud to between 1260 and 1390 have been thrown into doubt.Swedish textiles expert Dr Mechthild Flury-Lemberg, who discovered the seam at the back of the cloth during a restoration project, says: "There have been attempts to date the shroud from looking at the age of the material, but the style of sewing is the biggest clue."It belongs firmly to a style seen in the first century AD or before."Her findings are being hailed as the most significant since 1988, when scientists controversially carbon-dated the 14ft-long cloth to medieval times, more than 1,000 years after Jesus died.

Yet experts now say the team unwittingly used cloth that had been added during a 16th-century restoration and it could have been contaminated from handling.Mark Guscin, of the British Society for the Turin Shroud, says: "The discovery of the stitching along with doubt about the carbon-dating all add to the mountain of evidence suggesting this was probably the shroud Jesus was buried in."Scientists have been happy to dismiss it as a fake, but they have never been able to answer the central question of how the image of that man got on to the cloth."

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i'm sorry but what proof other than it bearing a likeness and now supposedly having stitching to that of 1 centuary textiles, indicates it is the shroud jesus was buried in?

because they say so

It sounds to me that that article is more about promoting some guy's book, hoping to get more sales due to the interest generated by Passion of the Christ. This new proof of the stitching sounds daft to me, what stops that type of stitching being done in any time period?

I think the biggest clue that (unfortunately) the Turin Shroud is a fake is the fact that the image of the face looks like how Jesus has been pictured in western europe since the mediaeval period, basically like a western european.

Take another sample (from a different location), do another carbon dating ... problem solved.

Or maybe Jesus came back on the year 1000 according to revelation, but we crucified him again?

yep, that is definately the way forward

well I saw a program on t.v. in wich they rapped a sweaty guy in a slightly grubby linen sheet.They left him in there for a while untill his sweat had soaked into the linen nicely.Then they exposed the the sheet to sunlight for a few hours.then left it in the dark for a while and hey presto,out came a shroud similar to the turin shroud?Well i never took the time to try it, but thats what i saw on t.v

well if that was true there would be thousands of 'shrouds' across the globe - bedsheets!

Also, shouldn't the carbon dating over rule the stitching anyways? Because if the day shows it appeared in medeval times then material for the shroud would have to be from medeval times because how could it exist before it's date? The stitching is either coincidence or just done in a similar style.

As I'm writing this Post I'm watching CNN's show titled "The Mystery of Jesus"
It has presented many complex scientific data, such as the alignment of the planets and a star. Religiously, this would say that a divine child would be born...Jesus, his birth calculated as April 7th, 6 B.C.

Wasn't there an alignment of 5 planets last month? Could this be connected to the alignments of the planets when Jesus was born? What divine child was born during the alignments of these 5 planets?
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Couldn't there have been a time when this shroud was preserved, creating this shroud uncalcalable for an accurate test of carbon-dating?

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What a coincidence, this is the 4th day of the 4th month of the 4th millenium.
Equals 16. Now what does this mean...

"Couldn't there have been a time when this shroud was preserved, creating this shroud uncalcalable for an accurate test of carbon-dating?"

No.

The Turin Shroud is fake. Period. Carbon Dating has proven this. C'mon! The stiching? What will they think of next?

"The discovery of the stitching along with doubt about the carbon-dating all add to the mountain of evidence suggesting this was probably the shroud Jesus was buried in."

What mountain of evidence?! Stop making molehills into mountains!

There was once where the Shroud of Turin was said to be faked by good ol' Da Vinci...

LINK

But then there are others who said it cannot be done

Link

But I say, I don't want to know...If it supposed to remain a mystery then let it be.

This is a typical Science Vs Religion...and it has no end.

Like I Said It Has No End....

since when did a 1st century ad jew look like a european?

Since Judah was conquered by Rome??
Or maybe because.. uhm... God did it!!

So the shroud is from an aquatic animal? What? Stupid.

"Are you qualified to make such a presumptuous answer? Qualified meaning, an expertise in this matters concerning this shroud?"

Yes.

Whether or not the cloth is the shroud that covered Jesus (I'm inclined to believe its not) I'd really like to know how the image of the man appeared on it.

I never though about it like that before, but yes...yes I am. *Turns fermented gape juice into wine* This is my drink! It is mine!