“Rigorous about the evidence, humble about the conclusions.” The relative success of The Medieval Shroud and The Medieval Shroud 2 and 3 on academia.edu has resulted in this spin-off, as a ‘place-holder’ for further research.
Joe Marino’s invaluable weekly round-up of Shroud news draws our attention to a new paper by César Barta and Elisa María Ruiz-Navas, called ‘Bleaching of Historical Old Linen Fabrics: the case of the Shroud of Turin.’ The premise, I think, was to determine if spectrographic techniques could verify how any particular fabric had been bleached, […]
This is the Ark of the Covenant. It is stored in a secure, climate-controlled warehouse in California, and very occasionally brought out for public display. It has a historical provenance dating back to… 1981. But there is evidence that it is actually much, much older. The Book of Exodus, which describes events from c. 1400BC, […]
In 2002, Professor Gérard Lucotte, Professor at the Paris School of Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Anthropology and Molecular Genetics, was given a glass microscope slide bearing a tiny sliver of sticky tape, a narrow triangle about 1.360mm high and 0.614mm wide. It had been cut from a larger piece of tape, applied […]
I have to thank Joe Marino for alerting me (via his weekly round-up of Shroud news to which everybody interested in the Shroud should subscribe) to a series of three interviews with Giulio Fanti conducted by Archpriest Kirill Ivanov, an Orthodox priest of the Russian Orthodox Church. How they occurred is a mystery to me, […]
The question of which came first, the blood or the image, is an important factor in the assessment of whether the Shroud is medieval or ancient, and a new paper by Kelly Kearse is the first to explore some aspects of it in any depth since John Heller and Alan Adler wrote about it in […]
The recent survey of the DNA found amongst the hooverings from the back of the Shroud has been re-published in Scientific Reports, so now seems a good time to revisit it, with some contemporary references. In an email to the principal author Gianni Barcaccia, I wondered if he had compared his findings to any other, […]
Dear Hugh, I do believe I qualify as a reasonable person, and I’m rationally justified on the basis of my criteria. How foolish, how ignorant you are to make mocking despicable little comments against me, your epistemic superior, who’s an actual philosopher and has studied the philosophy of miracles, and researched it for decades. You’ve […]
Inspired by “Shroud of Turin Debate: James Fodor & Real Seekers,”a YouTube discussion posted by Tavo San Abri, 10 July, and James Fodor, 11 July.[Added on Real Seekers with extra commentary, 15 July, and responded to on Real Seekers, 17 July, as “Shroud Wars Debate Review- Miracle vs. Man (Part 2)– Reviewing Hugh Farey’s Blog […]
More than 35 years ago, archaeologists poking about in the mouth of the Rambla Cervera river, south of Barcelona, found two large concretions of old iron, badly corroded, clogged with sand and fused solid with calcareous depositions. The lumps turned out to be stacks of helmets, of rather generic types, but which were tentatively identified, […]
‘Partially Labelled Regression Analysis: Dating the Shroud of Turin Using the ‘Raw’ Data,’Marco Riani, Anthony C. Atkinson, Aldo Corbellini, Paolo Di Lazzaro,Statistical Methods & Applications, 2026 Since the publication of the report on the radiocarbon dating of the Shroud, there have been several attempts to discredit its claim that the Shroud is medieval on statistical […]