r/europe • u/JackRogers3 • 2d ago

News Newly discovered document adds evidence that Shroud of Turin is not Jesus' crucifixion shroud

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/08/29/newly-discovered-document-adds-evidence-that-shroud-of-turin-is-not-jesus-crucifixion-shro
148 Upvotes

86% Upvoted

93 comments sorted by

View all comments

-9

u/Otsde-St-9929 1d ago

Id love to know how it was made. I dont know how they had this technology in the 12th cen

11

u/vandrag Ireland 1d ago

By all accounts it was an art project. They prepped a statue with paint and varnishes and laid the shroud over it.

Its why the imprint is not anatomically correct for the human body and why the "blood" pools in odd ways.

In the middle ages relic forgery was big business. Its why there's like 20 Jesus foreskins preserved in churches around the world.

-1

u/Otsde-St-9929 1d ago

The fabric is not painted though. The impression is something else. There is no layer of paint.

4

u/vandrag Ireland 1d ago

That's what I said. It's printed, maybe I should have said ink instead of paint. Here's an article that talks about how they did it. https://archaeologymag.com/2025/08/shroud-of-turin-image-came-from-sculpture/

0

u/Otsde-St-9929 1d ago

Thanks. That link from Archaeometry gives an idea of the object it shows, but nothing on what the image is. The image on the fibres is not ink or paint. No one has been able to replicated it. Thats the mystery of it.

3

u/vandrag Ireland 1d ago

There are many other studies about how the image was achieved, including re-constructions of the shroud or parts of the shroud to demonstrate the techniques.

-4

u/Otsde-St-9929 1d ago

I am pretty sure no one replicated it.

1

u/Calm-Bell-3188 Earth 1d ago

It probably wasn't technology. It was just nature.

1

u/Otsde-St-9929 1d ago

How it happened bewilders me. Id love to understand it

3

u/Calm-Bell-3188 Earth 1d ago edited 1d ago

The linnen used was probably exposed to a strong lightsource and heat somewhere in the middle ages and probably in the mediterranean region. The heat could be from the person dying from hypothermia hyperthermia. The picture is not due to dye, the linnen itself has been chemically altered somehow.

There's a good article about it here: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33164668

2

u/TheVojta Česká republika 1d ago

Doesn't hypothermia mean your body is too cold? Maybe you meant hyperthermia?

1

u/Calm-Bell-3188 Earth 1d ago

True, thanks. I'll edit it.

1

u/Otsde-St-9929 1d ago

That is so interesting and odd. Thanks!