>>16721493One such test in 2022 was carried out by an Italian scientist named Liberato De Caro. He and his team from the Institute of Crystallography in Bari, Italy, looked at the Shroud using a new method called wide-angle X-ray scattering. His paper suggests that the Turin Shroud actually dates back 2,000 years, putting it right around the time Jesus is said to have lived.
He and his team of researchers believe the cellulose in the Shroud's fibers has aged very, very slowly since the 14th century, thanks to the cooler temperatures in the rooms where it was kept. This, they argue, means that most of the Shroud's aging happened before the 1300s.
"The degree of natural aging of the cellulose that constitutes the linen of the investigated sample, obtained by X-ray analysis, showed that the [Turin Shroud] fabric is much older than the seven centuries proposed by the 1988 radiocarbon dating," De Caro and his team wrote.
However, the authors are quick to point out that their conclusions only hold up if future research can prove the relic was kept safely at an average room temperature of about 22°C (71.6 °F) with around 55 percent humidity for 1,300 years before it showed up in historical records.
That would be an impressively consistent, dedicated level of long-term care. If the early church had taken and preserved his shroud with a miraculous image of Christ's form on it, it's very unlikely they would’ve neglected to mention it in any of the early church fathers’ plentiful writings.
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