On April 11, the international journal
Heritage
exposed how Italian researchers, led by Liberato De Caro, a member of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy, had attempted a new experiment in dating the Shroud of Turin.
Their method, called "Wide Angle X-Ray Scattering" (WAXS), consists of measuring the natural aging of linen cellulose using X-rays, then calculating the time elapsed since the fabric was manufactured.
The team, in this case, worked on a fiber from the Shroud of Turin taken near the place where a sample had been selected, thirty-four years ago, for the carbon-14 study which had dated the medieval shroud.
By comparing their results with those obtained by an identical analysis of four other samples – an Egyptian fabric from 3,000 years BC, a fabric dated from the siege of Masada, a Jewish fortress that resisted the Romans (70-73), a cloth from the 6th century, and a fabric from the years…
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