We may be close to the truth about the Shroud of Turin
The latest in the quest to understand the world’s most confusing relic
13 min readAug 2, 2023
The Shroud of Turin has for many decades been thought to have been a clever forgery, created in the middle ages. The historical record of the Shroud begins in 1350.
The Shroud is claimed to be the burial shroud that wrapped the crucified Christ when he was placed in the tomb, meaning that we have to account for 1300 years of nothing but ambiguous references to a cloth with an image of Christ on…
