Shroud of Turin Back on Display

The Shroud of Turin, a yellowing sheet bearing the inexplicable image of a crucified man that some revere as Christ’s burial cloth, went on display for only the fourth time this century. Enclosed in a glass case filled with inert gas, the fragile linen cloth was hung in Turin’s cathedral, where up to 50,000 people a day are expected to line up to view the relic. In 1988, scientists concluded after testing scraps of the cloth that it dated to between 1260 and 1390. They admitted they couldn’t explain how the image on the shroud was formed, however.