Long before skeptics with labs, a scholar dismissed holy artifacts as clerical tricks.

In a rediscovered 14th-century text, Oresme delivers what might be the earliest written takedown of the Shroud of Turin. Writing in the 1370s, he didn’t hedge, mystify, or defer to authority ...

The Shroud of Turin, measuring 4.4 meters by 1.1 meters, famously bears the faint front and back impressions of a man’s body, complete with apparent wounds. It was first recorded around 1354-1355 in ...

The blood, sweat and tears on these threads are still — sorta — shrouded in mystery. New findings provide more evidence on what Jesus might have been buried in after he was crucified. A recent study ...

The Shroud of Turin is shrouded in mystery. Viewed as a holy relic for centuries, this artifact is not what it looks like, according to yet another study. The old linen cloth and its faint spectral ...

For more than six centuries, a mysterious cloth known as the Shroud of Turin has stirred fascination, devotion, and heated debate. The fabric bears the faint image of a man’s body, complete with what ...

The Shroud of Turin — a 14-foot-long linen cloth bearing an image of a crucified man — has captivated people for centuries, stirring debate over whether the relic once wrapped the body of Jesus Christ ...

The guardians of the famed Shroud of Turin are disputing the results of a recent study that purports to disprove the cloth’s origins as the burial shroud of Jesus Christ. Cicero Moraes, a Brazilian 3D ...

The Vatican has never officially pronounced on the shroud’s authenticity, though popes have held it up as an object of veneration. Shroud of Turin featuring positive (left) and negative (right) ...

An interactive museum dedicated to the Shroud of Turin, which some say was Jesus’ burial cloth, opens its doors to the public Wednesday at the Christ Cathedral campus in Southern California.“The ...