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The Shroud of Turin remains one of the enduring mysteries of our age. No successful explanation has yet been given for the 'negative' image of a crucified man transferred to the length of cloth and preserved in Turin for the last four centuries. Although radiocarbon dating of the fabric in 1988 indicated the cloth to be medieval, synchronous with the Shroud's first recorded appearance in the 1350s, there is still no satisfactory explanation for the image itself. Is it painted? If so, by whom? How could the artist have understood perspective before it had been 'discovered' in the Renaissance? How could he have painted an image in negative with no means to see and check it?

With so many questions about the Shroud as inexplicably unresolved as ever, with the radiocarbon dating findings only deepening the riddle, not solving it, and with the Shroud about to be shown again, in 1998 and 2000, an overview and an up-to-date consideration of the evidence is overdue.

Ian Wilson's landmark book on this subject The Turin Shroud, was published in 1978. In the intervening twenty years, in addition to the radiocarbon dating, much additional research has been done on the Shroud, and the dating process itself scrutinized. Ian Wilson's pursuit of every discipline related to the Shroud, including art history, physiology, chemistry, microbiology, photography and archaeology, has equipped him to give the most authoritative answer yet to the question - did the Shroud wrap the body of Christ? His enthralling text, with its objective but persuasive answers, tell us as much as it is currently possible to know.

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