Shroud of Turin

Tlie Shroud of Turin. This piece of linen first appeared in about a.d. 1350. It bears a faint image (enhanced here) of a man who appears to have been crucified. 

In 1988, the Shroud of Turin, claimed by some to have been used to bury Christ, was age-dated by isotopic... 

The Shroud of Turin is imprinted with an image that resembles a male human, thought by some to be a representation of Christ. 

Heller, J. H. (1983), Report on the Shroud of Turin, Houghton Mifflin, New York. 

Iannone, J. C. (1998), The Mystery of the Shroud of Turin, Alba House. 

A.J.T. Jull, DJ. Donahue and P.E. Damon, Factors affecting the apparent radiocarbon age of textiles a comment on Effects of fires and biofractionation of carbon isotopes on results of radiocarbon dating of old textiles the Shroud of Turin , by D.A. Kouznetsov et al., J. Archaeol. Sci. 23, 157 160 (1996) D.A. Kouznetsov, A.A. Ivanov and P.R. Veletsky, Effects of fires and biofractionation of carbon isotopes on results of radiocarbon dating of old textiles the Shroud of Turin, J. Archaeol Sci. 23, 109 121 (1996). 

What do the Shroud of Turin, cerebrospinal fluid, soil, gasohne, the Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt van Rijn, apple cider, and solar wind have in common One answer is that they all can be mass spectrometry samples. This point of view, though essentially correct, seems somewhat limited and biased, however. In this part of the book, we are turning the common mass spectrometry perspective upside down. Instead of listing different application areas for mass spectrometry, we let ten different researchers or research groups introduce their respective fields and describe how mass spectrometry can aid them in their work. 

Raxliocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin indicates that it was manufactured in the thirteenth or fourteenth century... 

The Shroud of Turin is approximately 617 years old, indicating that it comes from medieval times. 

The Shroud of Turin is a length of linen that for centuries was purported to be the burial garment of Jesus Christ. In 1988 three laboratories in different countries measured the carbon-14 content of very small pieces of the Shroud s cloth. All three laboratories concluded that the cloth had been made sometime between AD 1260 and AD 1390. 

In Chapter 22, Herr et al. describe a monoclonal antibody used to test for human albumin in body fluids. The development of this monoclonal antibody was aimed at forensic evidence, but if (and it must be tested) degradation processes do not destroy the antigenic site that this antibody recognizes, it could be used for archaeological samples. Certainly as these techniques are developed they will prove valuable in the studies of objects that are suspected of containing blood. For example, these newer methods could help further define an artifact like the Shroud of Turin, which is described in Chapter 23. 

Recent improvements in reducing the sample size needed for carbon dating have opened up new possibilities for the archaeologist and museum curator. In particular, it has become feasible to carbon date the Shroud of Turin, and the results were announced recently. 

Detailed expositions of radiocarbon techniques and applications are found elsewhere (1-8), but for completeness, a brief introduction is given in this chapter. The purpose of this introduction is to summarize the current status of the analytical methods and to show how advances in radiocarbon dating have made it possible to carry out a program for measuring the age of the Shroud of Turin. 

Harbottle Heino Carbon Dating the Shroud of Turin... 

In 1973 the techniques available for 14C dating would have required a handkerchief-sized sample. The analytical procedures available now will allow the Shroud of Turin to be dated by using postage stamp-sized pieces of the sacred relic. The ability to determine dates by using such small samples has brought the project from practical impossibility to the brink of completion. 

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