In order not to injure the feelings of believers, we will immediately make a reservation that we will only talk about a scientific version, but the truth, as the ancient sages said, always lies between opposing views. Therefore, in order to get closer to it, one should not reject any facts, assumptions and opinions. So, according to the Politeka publishing house, specialists of the Italian Committee for the Investigation of Pseudoscientific Theories, together with British scientists at the University of Liverpool, in the course of impartial (as they themselves put it) research, came to the conclusion that on the world famous shroud, in which the body of Jesus Christ was allegedly wrapped after the crucifixion, traces of blood could not remain, as it is presented in the legend (namely the legend, since all the facts collected in recent years about this Christian relic refute it).
Scientists conducted an interesting experiment using a copy of the shroud and the participation of a person (a mannequin was also a duplicate) in order to determine what traces the blood oozing from wounds such as those received by the Savior would leave on the canvas. Donor blood was used for the experiment. This method, used in blood splatter analysis, is well known in forensic science. In this case, he showed that the bloody spots on the shroud in the form in which they are familiar to us could form only if the blood oozed from different angles. That is, Jesus had to not only lie, but also stand with his arms raised at an angle of 45 degrees, and periodically raise and lower them. Approximately the same picture with legs. In a more understandable language, the body wrapped in the shroud had to specially create the necessary (recognizable) imprint on it.
By the way, a radiocarbon analysis of the shroud, made a relatively long time ago, showed that it was made in the XIII-XIV centuries, and therefore the body of Jesus could not be wrapped in it. True, an explanation was immediately found that this was just a medieval copy of a holy relic, and the original was hidden in some purely secret place, say, in the underground storage of the Vatican. So, the current research proves that not only the shroud, but also the imprint on it of the body of a person crucified on the cross before that is a fake. Most likely, scientists say, the Shroud of Turin was created as a visual aid, a kind of illustration of the execution of Jesus Christ, and only later it was deliberately or accidentally made a "true relic" from it, and it was technically impossible to verify this authenticity for centuries.
