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Polly Hartley

Oxford to re-visit Turin Shroud

An Oxford Laboratory has been persuaded to revisit the dating of the shroud of Turin by a physicis professor. The shroud is the reported burial shroud of Jesus Christ. The professor, John Jackson, has argued that carbon monoxide could have contaminated the shroud and distorted its radio-carbon dating results by more than a thousand years.