... old. This now poses the greatest dilemma for the proponents of the Shroud. The Shroud cannot be explained in a medieval context, because it presupposes medical, artistic. And historical knowledge of crucifixion practices totally unknown in the Middle Ages. It also contradicts other documentation pointing ! to a Middle East origin between 29 to 33 AD. The validity of the ... that the image is a negative one like a photographic negative in which light areas appear dark and dark areas appears light. Before the discovery of photography (in about 1840), knowledge of negative images was limit...

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