[Photo Group] Da Vinci passed off as God? The Turin Shroud fools the saints?

by hanyelv on 2009-07-05 15:03:37

The Turin Shroud is a linen cloth bearing the image of a man's face. It is said that after Jesus died on the cross, his body was wrapped in this cloth, and the clear bloodstains on the shroud recorded the visage of Jesus, which has been widely venerated as a result. Skeptics, however, believe that the shroud is a medieval forgery, speculating that it is the product of Da Vinci's photographic experiments, and pointing out that the image on the shroud is actually Da Vinci himself. In 1988, samples from the shroud were carbon-14 dated, with the conclusion being that its origin was around the year 1300 AD. However, some scholars believe there were errors in the testing.