It was probably a mixture of older threads and newer threads woven into the cloth as part of a medieval repair. Chemical analysis, all nicely peer-reviewed in scientific journals and subsequently confirmed by numerous chemists, shows that samples tested are chemically unlike the whole cloth. This is because there are significant scientific and non-religious reasons to doubt the validity of the tests. So do many other scientists and archeologists. Christopher Ramsey, the director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Laboratory, thinks more testing is needed. Even the famous Atheist Richard Dawkins admits it is controversial. The carbon dating, once seemingly proving it was a medieval fake, is now widely thought of as suspect and meaningless. The Shroud of Turin may be the real burial cloth of Jesus.
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