Edessa Cloth hidden above a gate in the walls of Edessa

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Medieval artistic rendering of the discovery of the Edessa Cloth hidden above a gate in the walls of Edessa.

Picture of Mordant lakes on the Shroud of Turin

Photomicrograph, gum is swelling and slowly detaching from the fibers and alizarin mordant lakes can be seen. Yellow dye is in solution. Further evidence of repair.

Picture of Gum encrusted fiber on the Shroud of Turin

Gum encrusted cotton fiber found only in the carbon 14 sample area and not elsewhere on the cloth.

Spliced thread picture from the Shroud of Turin

Close up view of spliced thread in the carbon 14 sample area showing that what was tested was likely a repair and not original cloth.

UV photo of sample area for the carbon 14 testing of the Shroud

UV photograph of carbon 14 sample area showing that the sample area is chemically unlike the rest of the cloth

Single fiber up close showing image coating

Phase-contrast microscopy of a single image fiber. Image is a reddish-brown caramel-like complex carbon bond, a chemical change within a super thin coating of crude starch on the fabric's outermost fibers. It is not paint or any kind of applied pigment. It is likely caused by bodily amine vapors reacting with saccharides in the starch.

Close up pictures of thread showing coating on fibers

Threads consisting of twisted bundles of fibers. Shows color in starch coating

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Finding the picture of Jesus, the Shroud of Turin, above the city gate in Edessa ca 644 AD Picture of Jesus from the Shroud of Turin Microscopic view if the substance of the picture of Jesus on the Shroud of Turin Picture of Jesus, Man of Sorrows, believed sourced from the Shroud of Turin