Scientific study of the Shroud of Turin

I have no idea.

I had a look at their FAQs, and they both say all the right things about copyright. Still, I suppose they may partly be covering themselves and benefitting from authors bending the rules and publishers not checking.

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Shroud of Turin wasn't laid on Jesus' body, but rather a sculpture, modeling study suggests

Kristina Killgrove
August 1, 2025
Live Science

In a study published Monday (July 28) in the journal Archaeometry, Brazilian 3D digital designer Cicero Moraes, who specializes in historical facial reconstructions, used modeling software to compare how cloth drapes over a human body versus how it drapes over a low-relief sculpture of one.

"The image on the Shroud of Turin is more consistent with a low-relief matrix," Moraes told Live Science in an email. "Such a matrix could have been made of wood, stone or metal and pigmented (or even heated) only in the areas of contact, producing the observed pattern," he said.

One expert thinks that Moraes is right but that his study is not particularly groundbreaking.

"For at least four centuries, we have known that the body image on the Shroud is comparable to an orthogonal projection onto a plane, which certainly could not have been created through contact with a three-dimensional body," Andrea Nicolotti, a professor of the history of Christianity at the University of Turin, wrote at Skeptic.

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Cross-referencing with:

• Study Claims Figure in Shroud of Turin Shows Movement
  
• There might be more to the Turin Shroud than I thought
  

In a study published Monday (July 28) in the journal Archaeometry, Brazilian 3D digital designer Cicero Moraes, who specializes in historical facial reconstructions, used modeling software to compare how cloth drapes over a human body versus how it drapes over a low-relief sculpture of one.

"The image on the Shroud of Turin is more consistent with a low-relief matrix," Moraes told Live Science in an email. "Such a matrix could have been made of wood, stone or metal and pigmented (or even heated) only in the areas of contact, producing the observed pattern," he said.

And here I thought that it was just a corpse that has been claimed by Christians to be "Jesus", nevermind that Jesus, if actually real, would never have looked like a European man per the Shroud's depiction, but a very classical Hebrew of the time.

Same thing as the tomb claimed to be that of "Jesus" ~ it's easy enough to find a tomb that just happens to fit the requirements, or pose a tomb that appears to... we know that some individuals aren't above fakery for the sake of the cause. As long as it brings new members to the cause, is the logic of some.