Shroud of turin dna
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Still, the strongest genetic signals seemed to come from areas in and around the Middle East and the Caucasus - not far from where Jesus was buried, and consistent with the early folklore surrounding the object. The genetic lineage, or haplotype, of the DNA snippets suggested that people ranging from North African Berbers to East Africans to inhabitants of China touched the garment. The team also sequenced the human mitochondrial DNA (DNA passed from mother to child) found in dust from the shroud. Geologists further cite the Gospel of Matthew that states “the earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open” after Jesus was crucified, leading them to argue an earthquake at the time of Jesus’ death could have released a burst of neutrons that would’ve thrown off the radiocarbon dating and resulted in the darkened imprint on the shroud. However, researchers later argued that small parts of the clothe tested were replacements sown by nuns after the shroud was in a fire. 1390, lending credence to the notion that it was an elaborate fake created in the Middle Ages. In the 1980s, radiocarbon dating, which measures the rate at which different isotopes of the carbon atoms decay, suggested the shroud was made between A.D. 1353, when it showed up in a tiny church in Lirey, France. The Catholic Church has only officially recorded its existence in A.D. 1204, which was then the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, and the shroud was smuggled to Athens, Greece, where it stayed until A.D. 30 or 33, and was kept in Edessa, Turkey, and Constantinople (the name for Istanbul before the Ottomans took over) for centuries. Legend says the actual shroud of Jesus was secretly carried from Judea in A.D.
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Yet, by their own admission, the study revealed nothing about the legitimacy of the Shroud of Turin. “We cannot say anything more on its origin.”īarcaccia and colleagues analyzed dust particles that were vacuumed off of the shroud, which revealed traces of both plant and human DNA. The plant DNA surprisingly came from all over the world, including European spruce trees, Mediterranean clovers, ryegrasses, plantains, North American black locust trees, rare East Asian pear and plum trees all left their mark on the cloth. “Individuals from different ethnic groups and geographical locations came into contact with the Shroud either in Europe (France and Turin) or directly in their own lands of origin (Europe, northeast Africa, Caucasus, Anatolia, Middle East and India),” study lead Gianni Barcaccia, a geneticist at the University of Padua in Italy and lead author of the new study describing the DNA analysis, told Live Science.