for dating textiles such as linen, when the carbon dating of 1988 was recalculated in the light of these new considerations the Shroud was arguably at least nineteen hundred years old, and therefore

Tite, who of course supervised the Shroud carbon dating in 1988, and is now in charge of the accelerator mass spectrometer radiocarbon dating facility at Oxford University's Research Laboratory for

that could account for the medieval carbon dating claimed in the 1988 test, for the theory implies that freed neutrons from the nuclei would have converted some of the nitrogen in the Shroud into carbon-

and in particular the carbon dating carried out in 1988. This was Professor Luigi Gonella, who died last August, at the age of 77. Born in 1930, Gonella’s early training was as an engineer and physicist.

the question of its date remains open despite the Carbon-14 dating of 1988. We would hope the Vatican, together with disinterested scientists, might agree to once again study the Shroud and respond

that could be the key to how the Shroud carbon dating of 1988 erred, if indeed it did err. But it cannot be emphasised enough that every scientific claim on the Shroud, whether this be for or against

STURP testing in 1978 and the Shroud carbon dating in 1988, in the latter instance receiving much criticism for his acceptance of the scientific findings on behalf of the Catholic Church. Received

coating responds to the cleansing solvents used by the carbon dating laboratories in 1988. This means that a high proportion of the Shroud samples as 'tested' in 1988 would have comprised randomly-distributed

also for the first time since the carbon dating of 1988. From my personal experience of being interviewed in the US, UK and Australia, media reactions have been fascinating. Before the expositions there

Here is an excerpt from the article: “In 1988, carbon-dating tests concluded the Shroud of Turin was a 700-year-old fake. Thirty-five years later, 21st- century science is pointing to a dramatically