In "The Sign" (Dutton Books), art historian Thomas de Wesselow argues that, despite a 1988 carbon dating test which resulted in the Shroud being declared a medieval fake dating from between 1260 and 1390, the burial cloth is real, because the signs of the wounds represented predate Middle Age artistic representations of the style of Roman crucifixions.
"The Sign: The Shroud of Turin and the Secret of the Resurrection" by Thomas de Wesselow (Dutton)
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