OH GIVE ME A BREAK

Via tbogg, some scientists in Milan have made a "discovery":

Italian scientists have found a matching image of a man's face and possibly his hands on the back of the Turin shroud, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, one of the researchers said on Thursday.

The discovery that the ghostly image on the back of the linen cloth matches the face that adorns the front is likely to reignite debate over whether the shroud is genuine or a skilful medieval fraud.

"The fact that the image is two-sided makes any forgery difficult," Professor Giulio Fanti of the University of Padua told Reuters.

The findings of Fanti and Roberto Maggiolo, both from the university's department of mechanical engineering, were published this week by a journal of the Institute of Physics in London.

Fanti said the discovery would support those who maintain the cloth is genuine.

Tbogg also has a new picture of the shroud.

Of course, the Shroud of Turin has also been carbon-dated, showing it to be a Medieval item, created no earlier than the 12th Century. In truth, it should be filed next to this:



Also, speaking of Jesus and Tbogg, since I'm already going to hell for a variety of reasons, might as well link to this.