I have no times for faith-replacing relics
which divert the attentions of the faithful.
Nonetheless, The Shroud Of Turin always
captures my interest for its rather dramatic history.
Do I believe that it is what many catholics
claim it to be? - Sorry - no, but this latest dating is certainly
fascinating.
"The research includes three new tests, two
chemical ones and one mechanical one. The first two were carried out with an
FT-IR system, one using infra-red light and the other using Raman spectroscopy.
The third was a multi-parametric mechanical test based on five different
mechanical parameters linked to the voltage of the wire. The machine used to
examine the Shroud's fibres and test traction, allowed researchers to examine
tiny fibres alongside about twenty samples of cloth dated between 3000 BC and
2000 AD.
"Final results show that the Shroud fibres examined produced the following dates, all of which are 95% certain and centuries away from the medieval dating obtained with Carbon-14 testing in 1988: the dates given to the Shroud after FT-IR testing, is 300 BC ±400, 200 BC ±500 after Raman testing and 400 AD ±400 after multi-parametric mechanical testing. The average of all three dates is 33 BC ±250 years.
"The tests were carried out using tiny fibres of material extracted from the Shroud by micro-analyst Giovanni Riggi di Numana who passed away in 2008 but had participated in the1988 research project and gave the material to Fanti through the cultural institute Fondazione 3M."
"Final results show that the Shroud fibres examined produced the following dates, all of which are 95% certain and centuries away from the medieval dating obtained with Carbon-14 testing in 1988: the dates given to the Shroud after FT-IR testing, is 300 BC ±400, 200 BC ±500 after Raman testing and 400 AD ±400 after multi-parametric mechanical testing. The average of all three dates is 33 BC ±250 years.
"The tests were carried out using tiny fibres of material extracted from the Shroud by micro-analyst Giovanni Riggi di Numana who passed away in 2008 but had participated in the1988 research project and gave the material to Fanti through the cultural institute Fondazione 3M."
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