A team led by Liberato De Caro used x-ray scattering to study linen fiber degradation and determine their age.

After centuries of scientific testing and debate, the Shroud of Turin remains one of the most intriguing religious artifacts in the world for both sceptics and believers, researchers and theologians.

There are some things in this world that refuse to be explained away. The Shroud of Turin is one of them. For centuries, this ...

The Turin Shroud is a linen cloth measuring 1.21m by 4.42m believed by some to bear the impression of Jesus Christ. For the first time in a decade it has gone on display in Turin. Here we have ...

One of the most controversial debates for centuries has raged over a single piece of yellowed linen that bares the ghost-like image of a crucified man - the Shroud of Turin. It first appeared in ...

Luckily for Turin, there is a counterbalance. Not far away is one point on the triangle of white (“good”) magic (the others being Lyons and Prague). Here is the Duomo, which houses the Shroud ...

The linen cloth many believe is the burial shroud of Jesus Christ draws thousands of pilgrims during rare public displays ...

Just in time for the current Easter season, news emerged from Italy that a new approach to dating the Shroud of Turin has located it squarely in the time frame necessary for it to have wrapped the ...

A new study claims the Shroud of Turin likely never touched Jesus, sparking debate over the authenticity of Christianity’s most famous relic. Moraes found that a shallow sculptural technique ...

Initiatives associated with the liturgical feast of the Shroud of Turin during the Jubilee year, including a 'multimedia ...

A Vatican scholar claims to have deciphered Jesus Christ's 'death certificate' on the Turin Shroud, or Holy Shroud. It is a linen cloth revered by Christians and held by many to bear the image of ...

Founded by the late funeral director Robert Waltrip in 1992, The National Museum of Funeral History houses the history of the ...