Real Archaeology Takes A Shot at The Shroud

[Minimalist]

Real archaeologists discover an actual first century shroud in Jerusalem.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1236161/First-burial-shroud-carbon-dated-time-Christs-crucifixion-caves-near-Jerusalem.html

Even less surprising is that it shows that the Turin Shroud is nothing like what was in actual use. Of course, the Shroud Crowd will now conclude that this is fake and theirs is real but truly, nothing else could be expected of a bunch of nuts like that.

Looks as the Church was right after all. It is not authentic.

Radiocarbon tests and artefacts found in the cave prove almost beyond doubt that it was from the same time of Christ's death.

It was made with a simple two-way weave - not the twill weave used on the Turin Shroud, which textile experts say was introduced more than 1,000 years after Christ lived.

And instead of being a single sheet like the famous item in Turin, the Jerusalem shroud is made up of several sections, with a separate piece for the head.

The finder, archaeologist Shimon Gibson has credibility as an archaeologist and coincidentally happens to have been involved as a junior member of the team which initially excavated the Talpiot Tomb which later jackasses tried to turn into Jesus' Tomb.

[Rokcet Scientist]

He bears watching.

[E.P. Grondine]

I seem to remember that the British journal Archaeology did a piece over a decade ago, on the plant fibers and the weave and showed that it could not be authenticl, and further traced the transmission route.

It didn't do any good then, and more work will likely not do much good either. Sometimes people believe what they want to believe.

[kbs2244]

" Sometimes people believe what they want to believe."

That is something we should remember when we look in a mirror.

[Minimalist]

E.P., for once we are in total agreement!

[Rokcet Scientist]

Sometimes people believe what they want to believe.

I'd adapt that to: people practically always believe what they want to believe.