Shroud of Turin

Science behind the mystery

Shroud of Turin, widely purported to the actual grave-cloth of the historical Jesus of Nazareth is housed in a Cathedral in Turin, Italy. The reason for its emergence as the most-controversial, most-studied and highly debated relic, is that it has an imprint of full-body image (both dorsal and ventral sides) of a Semitic man. The wound marks and bloodstains found on the image correspond to the injuries sustained by a person who underwent Roman crucifixion. The skull area has been punctured to suggest that a 'crown of thorns' was worn to the man who then can hardly be none other than the Jesus Christ. Roman soldiers worn a crown made up of thorns on Jesus to make mockery of him as the 'King of Jews'. There is a wound on the left side as a mark of spear-thrust as was done to Jesus probably on the right side by the Roman soldiers to confirm his death.

There are however some puzzling characteristics about the Shroud which could neither be reproduced or duplicated by modern technology, nor could they be explained by modern science.