and meeting with their tour groups in Turin. Details are yet to be worked out. I also presented the 2013 Financial Report as of the date of the meeting. There were several other issues and suggestions

1 In Anticipation of Carbon 14 Dating of the Shroud of Turin by Jacques Evin......2 New Problems and Arguments about the Pollen Grains by Werner Bulst......13 The Seamless Tunic by Dorothy Crispino.

like Images On Linen with Implication for Shroud of Turin Conservation and a Method to Clean Shroud Linen of Microbial Contamination for Reliable Radiocarbon Dating Professor Avinoam Danin Floristic

have revolutionized the study of the history of the Turin Shroud and placed it on an academically reputable plane much higher than was possible even twenty years ago. The authors do not seem to have

Scientific Considerations on the Shroud's Radiocarbon Date Dare I say I was disappointed? Basically he just agreed with what Kouznetsov says, stating that his arguments are scientifically coherent.

Asked his personal view on how the Shroud's image had been created - having just seen the cloth for himself in Turin - he said that he still thought it to be a fake, and that the image had probably

in R. Berger, H.E. Suess, Radiocarbon Dating, University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1979, pp.777-784; [2] Eric E. Jumper et al, "A Comprehensive Examination of the Various Stains

conclude that the Shroud of Turin is older than the medieval date ascribed to it by radiocarbon dating in 1988. This has led to the proposal of various hypotheses to explain this apparent discrepancy.

Intensive study of the Shroud of Turin by previous investigators has shown that the image very probably was not formed by painting, dyeing, rubbing or staining. Indeed no hypothesis satisfactorily explains

23 Cf. Turin Shroud shown to be a fake in The Independent, 14 October 1988. 24 Cf. D'Muhala, T. 1996. Where do we go from here? (www.shroud.com/dmuhala.htm) 12 them have been written after 198825.