Turin Shroud Back Side Shows Face

Now this is interesting indeed. The Shroud of Turin, believed to be the burial cloth of Jesus, has revealed itself to have a copy of a face on it’s back side. Why is this significant?

The presence of a face on both sides of the shroud would seem an obvious feature in case of a fake: when making a print onto a cloth, paint soaks the cloth’s fibers reaching also the back side.

“This is not the case of the Shroud. On both sides, the face image is superficial, involving only the outermost linen fibers. When a cross-section of the fabric is made, one extremely superficial image appears above and one below, but there is nothing in the middle. It is extremely difficult to make a fake with these features,” Fanti said.

According to the scientist, this double superficiality could be crucial to answer the central, unanswered question of how the image of that man got onto the cloth.