The true story of the scientist who re-established the case for the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin and discovered its incredible secrets.
In 1988, radiocarbon dating showed that the Shroud of Turin - long regarded as the burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth - could not be from the time of Jesus but was of more recent origin. What scientists did not know at that time, but what author Dr Leoncio Garza-Valdes came to discover, is that an organic "bioplastic coating" is created over time on ancient textiles, including the Shroud itself. This coating so distorts the carbon dating process that objects such as the Shroud are actually significantly older than they were thought to be. The scientific community has hailed these findings because of their significance for archaeologists around the world. For those interested in the mysterious history of the Shroud, it is again possible to regard it as originating in the first century - and consequently as being the burial cloth of Jesus.
But to go further, what of the blood remnants on the Shroud? Might this blood contain the DNA of God?
