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?
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Please excuse this pot-boiler of a posting …
Once again, this site has disappeared completely from Google rankings (under a “shroud of turin” search), and it happened, bizarrely, “overnight”. One can only speculate as to reasons – which might be legitimate – albeit puzzling in the suddenness if … Continue reading
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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Let’s take a closer look at a subset of bloodstains that STURP says were imprinted before the body image… (Warning: this post is not for those who are convinced of the authenticity of 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, … Continue reading
Posted in Shroud of Turin
Tagged authenticity, blood stains, forgery, image analysis, scourge marks, Shroud Scope, STURP
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Shroud Scope 8: 372 impossible scourge marks (surely?) 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, … Continue reading
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Tagged blood, dumbbell, faccini, Fanti, fudge, image, l, lead spheres, Roman flagrum. lesions, scourge marks, Shroud of Turin
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Shroud Scope 7: Why call it blood if one’s not sure it is blood? A sceptic’s dilemma
I am presently drafting my next post. Its focus is chiefly on the scourge marks on the Turin Shroud. But it’s not entirely certain as to what is imaged when references are made to those scourge marks. Some say they … Continue reading
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Tagged AROW-blood, blood, iron, nail wound, plum-coloured regions, porphyrins, sceptic, scourge marks, Shroud of Turin, Shroud Scope, sodium, tree diagram, wrist
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My answer to the steeped-in-mystique Turin Shroud - evolving gradually from some 10 years of science-based experimental modelling. 