Travertine Aragonite found on the Shroud of Turin -
Implications in the Quest for the Historical Jesus
Joseph Kohlbeck, Resident Scientist at the Hercules
Aerospace Center in Utah, and Richard Levi-Setti of the Enrico Fermi
Institute at the University of Chicago, examined embedded dirt particles
taken from the Shroud’s surface. The dirt was found to be travertine
aragonite limestone. Using a high-resolution microprobe, Levi-Setti and
Kolbeck compared the spectra of samples taken from the Shroud with samples
of limestone from ancient Jerusulem tombs.
The chemical signatures of the Shroud samples and the
tomb limestone were identical except for some minute fragments of organic
cellulous linen fiber that could not be separated from the Shroud samples.
Kolbeck acknowledges that this is not absolute proof that the Shroud was in
Jerusalem and that there might be other places in the world – though none
are known and it is statistically unlikely any will be found – where
travertine aragonite has the identical trace chemical composition.
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more about the carbon 14 testing, with useful links
to significant papers, may be found at
http://www.shroudstory.com/c14.htm and
http://shroud.com.
Must Read:
A new and very decisive paper written in 2002 by Raymond N. Rogers, a
Laboratory Fellow at the University of California, Los Alamos National
Laboratory and Anna Arnoldi of the University of Milan is a must read:
Scientific Method Applied to the
Shroud of Turin: A Review
 Open Letter to John Dominic Crossan:
Dear John, What Were You Thinking?
Other web pages address some of the other
evidence that argues that the Shroud of Turin Carbon 14 testing does
not make sense:
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