SHROUD OF TURIN DNA ANALYSIS PATCH

Researchers of these later studies believed the 1988 study might have mistakenly dated the cloth due to a patch placed on it at a later date for repair. However, two later studies - one in 2005 and another in 2013 - dated the cloth back to Christ's era. This latter possibility is intriguing, the researchers said, because the Italian 'Sindone di Torino' 'appears to derive from Sindia or Sindien, a fabric coming from India.'Ī 1988 study involving radiocarbon dating of the cloth found it to be from between 1260 to 1390. The study authors expressed surprise at finding DNA of Indian origin, but speculated that someone of Indian ancestry could have come in contact with the cloth on its travels or, perhaps, the linen itself was weaved in India.

'In conclusion, our results on human mtDNA traces detected on the are compatible with both alternative scenarios that i) the cloth had a Medieval origin in Western Europe where people from different geographic regions and ethnic affiliations came in contact with it, possibly moved by the worship for the Christian relic ii) the linen cloth had a Middle Eastern origin and was moved itself across the Mediterranean area, consequently coming across a wide range of local folks and devotes in a longer time span,' the researchers wrote. This finding, the authors wrote, supports both the theory that the shroud had a longer journey, traveling through different geographic regions, or that people from these further regions could have come to visit it in Europe. 'These results not only confirm that plant fibers and pollen grains are present on, as previously reported by optical microscopy, but also reveal that multiple human individuals touched or otherwise left traces of their DNA on the relic linen,' the study authors wrote.

N this Sunday, Apfiler, people admire the Holy Shroud, the 14 foot-long linen revered by some as the burial cloth of Jesus, on display at the Cathedral of Turin, Italy. Mitochondrial DNA analysis revealed multiple people of different ethnicity's with a widespread geographic distribution had at one point come in contact with the cloth. The researchers also found that some of the dust particles were of human origin. 'Several plant taxa native to the Mediterranean area were identified as well as species with a primary center of origin in Asia, the Middle East or the Americas but introduced in a historical interval later than the Medieval period,' the study authors wrote.

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