Asking yourself
Has there been a substitution of the Shroud of Turin in the early twentieth century?
Maybe if you come to this page, you should know some little things about the Shroud of Turin and some of the contradictions that surrounds its scientific studies. May I remind you the problematic about its authenticity: 1. Tests conducted in Zurich, Oxford, and Arizona using AMS (Accelerator Mass Spectrometry) gave a definitive result by Carbon-14 dating. We cannot argue, following ill-informed correspondents, that foreign bodies like carbon have changed the result. The fragments were carefully washed before determination and thoroughness with which the review was conducted does not doubt. Nor, we cannot speculate on imaginary radiations that would have disrupted the sample. If this were the case, radiocarbon tend to increase its value and the result would date the linen before Christ. 2. If the determinations of 1988 are certain, the conclusion is that someone from the thirteen century has falsified the impression. 3. And if that "someone from the medieval" had the prodigious knowledge of forensic for:
So either :
Below, the comparison of the first photo ever taken by Pia in 1898 and the next one, by Enrie in 1931.
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