As the Turin Shroud is brought out for public viewing again, the BBC’s Duncan Kennedy looks at its enduring power to fascinate.
If it was an episode of CSI – Miami, New York or Las Vegas – it would all be solved within a television hour, which, if you strip out the adverts, is about 53 minutes.
The face, the body, the appearance of blood stains, all the clues are there.
And yet, not with the passage of hundreds of years and dozens of inquiries has the mystery of the Turin Shroud been solved to everyone’s satisfaction.
So, is it, or is it not the burial cloth of Jesus?
