Centre International d'Études sur le Linceul de Turin L'Identification Scientifique de l'Homme du Linceul Jésus de Nazareth, Actes du Symposium Scientifique International Rome 1993, published under

thereby broke one of the most elementary rules for radiocarbon dating samples - if at all possible avoid any area carrying a high microbiological contamination risk. Second, when the laboratory personnel

young' the date attributed to it by radiocarbon dating. In a letter also published in Newsletter 43 Dr. John Jackson, Director of the Turin Shroud Center of Colorado, queried the manner in which Dr.Kouznetsov

Dr. John Jackson on the seemingly aberrant radiocarbon date; Professor Dan Scavone, on the connection between the Edessa image and the Grail; Mark Guscin, on the sudarium of Oviedo; Professor Pierluigi

was itself in contact with our Turin Shroud and has a well documented history. It arrived in Spain from the Holy Land in the 7th century by way of North Africa, and was kept in a closed chest in Oviedo

however great have been the problems for those in Turin, they have not been alone. Since the publication of the last Newsletter the BSTS has suffered more than its usual number of hard knocks. As many

Colour and Intensity Analyses of the Shroud of Turin. Physics and Analytical Chemistry, Genetics, Biology Bertrand Ludes - Genetic Analysis of an Ancient Human Blood Stain. Silvio Diana and Emanuela

Among Turins Cardinal-Archbishops Ballestrero stands out rather as a Pope John XXIII character, with much the same build and man-of-the-people air. Photographs taken at the time of the taking of the samples

Mr. Bell says: 'Radiocarbon ages from about 30,000 years ago are likely to be approximately 4,000 years too young.' Editor's Note. The TL method is based on the fact that sedimentary materials, such

overview of the most recent arguments on the Shroud [p.9 ff], as published in the March edition of the journal Inside the Vatican. From the opposite viewpoint, however, we include radiocarbon dating