A recent study employing advanced 3D modeling software has revived debate over the Shroud of Turin, an artifact believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.
The research, led by Brazilian forensic expert Cicero Moraes, presents a digital analysis suggesting the image on the Shroud could not have been formed by wrapping the cloth around a full human form. Rather, it proposes the imprint may have originated from a flat or shallowly contoured surface, like a bas-relief carving.
“When you wrap a 3D object with a fabric, that object leaves … a more robust and deformed structure,” explained Moraes to the Telegraph.
His simulation demonstrates that a body wrapped in cloth would leave a swollen, distorted impression, unlike the slender, symmetrical image on the Shroud. His findings indicate that a bas-relief would result in a clearer, more evenly proportioned image, like the one seen on the Shroud.
The Shroud of Turin, which features a faint image of a crucified man with wounds corresponding to Biblical descriptions, has faced centuries of scrutiny. While a 1980s radiocarbon analysis dated the artifact to the medieval period, researchers have recently contested these results, arguing the tests may have been affected by contamination.
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