WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Shroud of Turin is “such a powerful image of God’s love because Jesus willingly underwent this for our salvation,” said Brian Hyland, curator of the Museum of the ...

It was kept in a chapel in Chambéry before being moved to Turin in 1578, where it is now housed in a silver box covered by four layers of bulletproof glass at the Chapel of the Holy Shroud.

The Shroud of Turin is a 14.5-by-3.5-foot linen cloth with a linear front to back mirror image of a crucified man. ... Hard to imagine, but the linen cloth was stored in a silver box, ...

A new scientific method analyzing the decay rate of cellulose fibers has dated the Shroud of Turin to around 2,000 years old—far earlier than the disputed carbon dating from the 1980s. The linen ...

The Shroud of Turin as it appears to the naked eye. Distracting shapes and lines are burn marks from a 1523 fire. (Giorgio Perottino/Reuters) Mark Antonacci, author of Test the Shroud, says that ...

Either way, how does the Turin Shroud ... (summarised in the box near the bottom of this page) the Shroud ... as light transformed the silver salt into tiny black particles of silver metal. ...

Some men have hobbies. Others have obsessions. And with enough money, an obsession can turn into a museum and let the whole world in for a peek. Which is why on the second floor of a nondescript ...

The Shroud, when photographed in 1898, had been in Turin over three hundred years, having been brought there from France by Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy in 1578.

(The Conversation) — Many believe the Shroud of Turin to be the cloth used to bury Jesus after his crucifixion. Scientists have investigated the claim and here’s what they found.

The Shroud of Turin, a centuries-old linen cloth that many believe was used to wrap Jesus’ body after crucifixion, is unlikely to be from Biblical times, hi-tech new research asserts.

The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy, houses a fascinating artifact: a massive cloth shroud that bears the shadowy image of a man who appears to have been crucified.