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Published online 28 January 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050124-17
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To know a veil
Attempts to date the Turin Shroud are a great game, says Philip Ball, but don't imagine that they will convince anyone.
The most recent scientific study of the Turin shroud will not surprise anyone with even a passing interest in this mysterious bit of cloth.
Retired chemist Raymond Rogers claims that the sample used for radiocarbon-dating studies in 1988 - which suggested that the shroud was a medieval forgery - is quite different from the rest of the relic.
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