AND PROF. G. RIGGI (1988) of each sample. The sketch-plan, translated from Riggi's Italian, is shown above. Samples A, B and C were those provided for Arizona, Oxford and Zurich (not necessarily in

radio and television news items relating to the carbon dating, there have been two recent television documentaries on the Shroud: Programme 1: "Shreds of Evidence", Timewatch, BBC2, 27 July 1988, 8.

cloth samples used for the radiocarbon dating in 1988 had anomalous characteristics because he found cotton fiber contaminations. He suggested the hypothesis that these samples had a different composition

ten years afterwards, the sample for Carbon-14 dating would be taken. What emerged was a considerable irregularity of the cloth, which showed low-density and very high- density areas. The most external

predicted that the carbon dating would date the Shroud to the mid fourteenth century, and in 1988 his prediction was proved to be uncannily accurate. If there is anyone in the world qualified to write

The sample used in 1988 is not valid, and I can prove it through several rigorous approaches. The pseudoscience claims of Garza- Valdes and Mattingly have sadly confused the issue, but they are easy

the circumstances of the carbon dating, etc., Emanuela Marinelli carefully reviews the various forgery and conspiracy theorists, such as Walter McCrone, Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince, Holger Kersten

on 6 May 1988. As a result of this experience (which had to be kept secret at the time), and his close involvement with all the political manoeuvrings throughout the preceding eleven years, Gove was

It was as long ago as 1980 he predicted that the carbon dating would date the Shroud to the mid fourteenth century, and in 1988 his prediction was proved to be uncannily accurate. If there is anyone in

The desire to prove erroneous the dating by a carbon-14 analysis of the Turin Shroud conducted in 1988 has lead to different theories in the past few years. One of these theories shall be examined here