Turiner Grabuch: The latest study strengthens faith in authenticity!

Turiner Grabuch: The latest study strengthens faith in authenticity!

Turin, Italien - The Turin Grapuch inspires the mind and inflamed heated debates: Is it an authentic image of Jesus after his crucifixion or is it a clever fake? These questions are discussed more intensively than ever in current research. A new study of Italian researchers is now causing a sensation and suggests that the cloth could actually come from the time of Jesus. This reports Stuttgarter Zeitung .

The Turin Grapuch measures a proud 4.40 meters in length and 1.13 meters in width and shows the image of a man with bloody wounds that are inseparable from the crucifixion of Jesus. It has been kept in the Turin Cathedral since 1578 and has rarely been made accessible to the public since then. The Catholic Church has never officially commented on the authenticity of the prison. It remains unclear whether the body of Jesus was actually wrapped in the cloth.

multi -layered history of the prison

The grave gained attention for the first time in the early 14th century, and its creation is dated around 1325. There is no question that this artifact has a high artistic value. It also shaped art history with artists like Leonardo da Vinci, who was inspired by the portrait. In a Arte documentary produced by Florian Höllerl, the adventurous search for traces of the cloth from the Grabeskirche in Jerusalem via France and Istanbul to the cathedral chapel in Turin is illuminated, such as Swyrl reported.

However, the scientists are on different fronts: While the chemist Luigi Garlaschelli believes in the ingenious fake and the crap of grave is called "black hole" full of questions, private researcher Joe Marino from Ohio considers it to be authentic. This variety of opinion shows how much research is still interested in this old and mysterious textile.

new evidence of authenticity?

The latest results of the Italian researchers published in the "Heritage Journal" have achieved further relevance. They used a special X -ray technique to determine the age of the tissue and are convinced that the threads of the grave can be dated to more than 2000 years. This knowledge could refute the former hypothesis of the 1980s that the cloth moved into the Middle Ages, which would mean a period of more than 700 years after Jesus. The researchers also found remarkable matches with a linen piece from Masada, which was dated to 55 to 74 AD, and found that contamination in previous samples could have falsified the results.

The Turin Grapuch will remain a controversial topic, while the scientists continue to discover new things and fear the believers whether the artifact really shows the portrait of Jesus that touches the world religions so much. The doors to new findings and exciting discussions are wide open and it remains to be seen where the journey of the Gratche will still lead us.