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Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin
ROME, 11.20.2009
BY ARIEL DAVID , Associated Press Writer
A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.
Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being a medieval forgery.
Barbara Frale, a researcher at the Vatican archives, says in a new read full story...
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