2026/02/12 by César Barta Gil
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions #Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies #Paleopathology and ancient diseases
paper · pdf · doi:10.14422/pen.v81.i317.y2025.005
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The Shroud of Turin has been dated by the Carbon 14 technique obtaining a medieval date. If this date were correct, the relic could not be of Jesus Christ and the whole investigation would lose its interest. Although the Carbon 14 technique (C14) frequently offers positive results for archaeology, there are also unsustainable results in a significant number of cases and in the case of the Shroud the intrinsic statistical analysis of the raw data cast doubt on the reliability of the result. Other alternative dating techniques applied to the Shroud align with the life of Christ. Among the possible causes of the failure of the C14 dating, the most survived ones are the mending and the neutron radiation.