In the photo: Shroud of Turin and how the body of Jesus supposedly lay, covered with this cloth
According to Antonio Lombatti from Parma, the Shroud of Turin is a medieval forgery, moreover, one of about forty such forgeries that were in circulation in Europe.
It's just that other linen shroud besides this one have not survived to our time. According to the scientist, the Turin shroud was made in Turkey around 1300.
Lombatti builds his conclusions on the research of a certain French historian of the 19th century, whose works he studied. The historian wrote that the shroud is just one of the many forgeries of that time that were destroyed around the time of the French Revolution. Some of them had clearly visible blood stains on the fabric, while others were almost completely white.
In his work, which was published in the journal Studi Medievali, Lombatti writes that the knight Geoffroy de Charny captured the shroud from Turkey after the Crusades just for memory in 1346. The de Charney family is listed as the first owner of the Turin Shroud.
Lombati is confident that the knight could not join the pilgrimage to Jerusalem after the liberation of the city of Smyrna, so he took the local shroud with him as a reminder of his participation in the campaigns.
It must be said that a carbon study of the Shroud from 1988, made in Oxford, also shows approximately the same date 1260-1390.