Image of my own (beardless!) face, obtained in 2015 via contact imprinting technique, easily realizable in medieval times.
Pre-imprinting! (purely a modern photo as distinct from medieval -type imprint!)
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Conflicting definitions of “sindonology”
1. First, from en.wiktionary
“The study of the Shroud of Turin from a believing perspective”
2. Second, from www.dictionary.
“The scientific study of the Shroud of Turin”
Er, they can’t both be right! Indeed they could be said to be pulling in opposite directions!
So why hasn’t sindonology put its house in order by agreeing on a SINGLE DEFINITION?
Tag Archives: bloodstains
Here’s what Alan D. Adler could (should?) have done to investigate the porphyrins of those anomalous Shroud bloodstains.
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
Shroudie-Alert: Day1.Chief topic: the Lirey Pilgrim’s Badge and that enigmatic chain…
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
Posted in medieval forgery, Shroud of Turin
Tagged bloodstains, chain, disinformation, doctoring image, ENEA, fluorescece, Home Guard, late addition of blood, lirey badge, miataking chain motif for blood, misinformation, Shroud Center of Colorado, Shroudie alert, spear wound, Stephen E.Jones, touching up with blood
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A question for Stephen Jones re his so-called “wounds” on the Shroud (not to be confused with bloodstains)
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
Posted in medieval hoax, Shroud of Turin
Tagged bloodstains, Fanti, scourge marks, Shroud, spear wound, Stephen E.Jones, wounds
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It’s still looking good for leech digesta (as the source of “blood” on the Shroud of Turin)
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, chosen … Continue reading
Posted in Shroud of Turin
Tagged anticoagulants, bloodstains, haem, hirudin, leech, leeches, Mark Evans, medicinal leech, protoporphyrin, ribs of weave, serum, Shroud of Turin, tarry, Thibault Heimburger
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Did blood-sucking leeches help to establish – at least in some eyes – the ‘authenticity’ of the Shroud of Turin?
It began as a posting on a forger’s modus operandi – my posting earlier this morning. Not your ordinary forger, I hasten to add, but probably a monk or similar. He no doubt thought he was acting from the best … Continue reading
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Tagged (red blood cells), Adler, anti-coagulants, authenticity, bloodstains, bloodsucking, coagulation, digestion, forger, globins, haemoglobin, leeches, porphyrins, serum, Shroud of Turin
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Was the blood on the Shroud applied with a monkish felt-tip pen (well, a somewhat primitive version thereof)?
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, chosen … Continue reading
Posted in Shroud of Turin
Tagged (red blood cells), Adler, bleeding, blood clots, bloodstains, clot-retraction, felt, felt pouch, felt-tip pen, filtration, Heller, leeches, serum exudation, Shroud of Turin, soap, STURP
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Shroud Scope 1: Let’s take a closer look at the bloodstains on the Shroud of Turin. Correction – the images that are interpreted as bloodstains.
Late addition (July 2019) Please forgive this postscript, correction, “prescript”, correction, intrusion, added many years later – based on some 350 and more postings here and elsewhere. That’s including some 7 years of my hands-on investigation into image-forming techniques, … Continue reading
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Tagged blood, bloodstains, high definition, image, Mario Latendresse, Shroud of T, Shroud of Turin, Shroud Scope
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My answer to the steeped-in-mystique Turin Shroud - evolving gradually from some 10 years of science-based experimental modelling. 