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Textiles
Cloth structure, weave, repairs, and what the textile itself can and cannot suggest about date and origin.
Research
Research
Long-form research pages that synthesize documentary, scientific, and material evidence about the Shroud of Turin.
The Research section gathers longer source-led studies that do not fit neatly into a single dated timeline entry. These pages are designed to pull together documents, textile analysis, scientific literature, and historical context around specific questions.
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Research Areas
These are the main evidence clusters the section is designed to cover as it grows.
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Documents
How medieval and later sources describe the object, its display, and the claims attached to it.
Planned coverage
Burial Practices
Comparisons between known burial customs and the image configuration, folds, and body presentation.
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Science
STURP, radiocarbon dating, chemistry, imaging, and the strengths and limits of each investigative method.
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Methods
How to distinguish observation, inference, and conclusion when the evidence remains contested.
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Featured Study
Start here for the strongest broad synthesis before moving into narrower studies.
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The Cloth Itself
What the Shroud's textile profile suggests about date, origin, and the strength of later versus ancient comparanda.
Taken as cloth rather than icon, the Shroud looks more at home in later European textile history than in the burial textiles excavated from Roman-period Judaea.
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