dr wadd

Even if the cloth was at some point demonstrably proven to have come from the right period, this does not preclude the possibility that it was faked at a later date using such cloth.

Regardless of the data issues, ther are another couple of major points of contention. The first is the fact that the image is taller on one side than the other. The second is that the image is not projected correctly if one assumes that the cloth was wrapped around a body, so it was almost certainly never used as a shroud.

The most recent research that I have read argues that the shroud was created by da Vinci using a camera obscura. The argument is definitely very plausible.