Faintly written words on the Shroud of Turin!

[URL=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34464293/ns/technology_and_science-science/ ‘Jesus-era’ cloth casts doubt on Turin Shroud - Ancient burial cloth used weaving pattern not seen in controversial linen[/URL]

An international team of researchers has found fragments of a burial shroud that cast serious doubt on the Shroud of Turin, the controversial linen cloth venerated by many Catholics as the proof that Christ was resurrected from the grave.

Discovered in a Jerusalem cemetery known as Akeldama, or “Field of Blood,” where Judas Iscariot is thought to have committed suicide, the shroud fragments were found around the remains of a man buried in a sealed chamber.

Probably a Jewish high priest or member of the aristocracy, the man suffered from tuberculosis and leprosy, as DNA of both diseases was found in his bones.

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The first of their kind discovered in Jerusalem, the shroud fragments date from the same time of Christ’s death, but are very different than the Shroud of Turin.

One of the most controversial relics in Christendom, the Turin linen features an intricate twill weave. The newly found cloth is made up of a simpler two-way weave.

Moreover, the Jerusalem garment is in two pieces — one for the head and one for the body —while the Turin shroud is a single piece of fabric.

If the remains in the Jerusalem tomb represent typical burial shrouds widely used at the time of Jesus, this casts strong doubt that the Turin Shroud originated from Jesus-era Jerusalem.