The British Museum was the only institution to fully and quickly answer my request.” “I graduated in law, so I had the idea to make a legal request based on the Freedom of Information Act. “For almost 30 years, scholars asked in vain for the raw data from the three laboratories and the supervising institution, the British Museum,” Casabianca told the Register. Finally, in response to the 2017 FOI, all raw data kept by the British Museum was made accessible to researchers for the first time. They provided what was said to be “conclusive evidence” of the medieval origin of the artifact.įor many years the raw data used in these tests was never released by the institutions involved, despite multiple requests for them to do so. When the scientists performed a radiocarbon analysis of the Turin shroud, their results were published in the journal Nature in 1989. Three laboratories involving researchers from the University of Arizona, Oxford University, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology contributed to the 1988 study, which was carried out under the auspices of the British Museum. The findings of this new team are that the 1988 test results were unreliable. After a 2017 Freedom of Information (FOI) request, a new team of researchers gained access to the original data used for the 1988 test. The implication was clear: The shroud was a medieval forgery. In 1988 radiocarbon tests on the Shroud of Turin dated the cloth to between 12. This latest two-year study was headed and funded by French independent researcher Tristan Casabianca, with a team of Italian researchers and scientists: Emanuela Marinelli, who has written extensively about the shroud Giuseppe Pernagallo, data analyst and senior tutor at the University of Catania, Italy and Benedetto Torrisi, associate professor of economic statistics at the University of Catania. A new French-Italian study on the Shroud of Turin throws doubt on what many thought was the definitive dating of the cloth believed by millions to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.

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