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The face on the Shroud of Turin as it is seen in a photographic negative. The
actual image on the cloth seems to be negative (or at least acts like a
negative) thus making a photographic negative into a positive image. Why this
is so is not well understood and why a faker of relics or an artist would
have created such an image is not at all clear. This face shown on the right
is computer enhanced. On the Shroud it is very hard to see.
Notice the the dark vertical streaks on both sides of the
face just at the outer edge of the eye sockets. This darker color is not
part of the image but is part of the color of the cloth. This suggests that
the threads of the cloth were bleached before weaving, a method used in the
first century but not used in medieval Europe.
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