A medieval document held in the collection of Göttingen University's Faculty of Humanities has been identified as a forgery from the 18th century. The document was supposedly from 1266 ...
This challenges previous studies that had branded it as a medieval forgery. The Shroud of Turin bears the faint image of a man believed by some to be Jesus Christ. It first surfaced in the 1350s.
Exactly 20 years ago the Shroud was deemed a medieval forgery by Carbon 14 data. But Rageh Omaar uncovers evidence that links the Shroud of Turin to two other, and earlier, shrouds of Christ ...