Riddles of the Shroud: Questions Science Can't Answer

Scientists can’t work it out. For more than a century, the Shroud of Turin, with its mysterious image of Jesus in death, has been asking unanswerable questions. No one can explain, let alone replicate it. It looks like a smudge on a bit of old cloth, but it is a negative, 3D, high-resolution image made from the tiny discolored fibers of a cloth covered in blood, along with an image of a body stiff with rigor mortis. Despite a controversial carbon dating in the 1980s, the Shroud has now been dated four times to the first century––most recently in early 2022. Historians have found that before its sudden appearance in the Western world seven centuries ago, it had a long history in Eastern Europe, revealed by icons, coins and other evidence. Riddles of the Shroud examines the many impossible questions posed by the Shroud––questions even science can’t answer.. Journalist and editor William West has worked on national and international news publications for half a century. After years of research, he has written an introduction for ordinary people to what he believes is ‘the most profound puzzle of all time’.

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