1260 – 1390!

The attitude the C-14 dating is conclusive evidence is not limited to Diogenes, but is actually quite prevalent. Even the C-14 scientists had this attitude… Hall, together with Dr Michael Tite of the British Museum and Oxford laboratory’s Dr Robert Hedges, on 13 October 1988, in front of a blackboard on which was written, “1260-1390!” …

C-14 dating as final arbiter

DrNoGods wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 3:02 pm There is a lot more to this story as well, as you’d expect. C-14 dating is no different from other sophisticated methods and requires properly working and calibrated equipment, properly trained operators, and critically … samples that are not contaminated and are prepared correctly. This is precisely …

Carbon dating and coal

The TS was C-14 dated using accelerator mass spectrometry. However, using AMS, it has detected C-14 in coal deposits. This means according to AMS, coal deposits cannot be older than 40,000 years. “Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS), a sensitive radiometric dating technique, is in some cases finding trace amounts of radioactive carbon-14 in coal deposits, amounts …

Charny family sold the shroud to the Savoy family

In 1453, the Charny family sold the shroud to the Savoy family. “In 1453 Margaret de Charny deeded the Shroud to the House of Savoy.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_o … d_of_Turin It was exchanged for the castle of Varambon and revenues from the Miribel estate. When Humbert died in 1438 the Shroud became the possession of his widow, …

More evidence the d’Arcis memo is suspect

More evidence the d’Arcis memo is suspect… The Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris possesses two copies of the Memorandum. Neither is dated. One is complete, the other incomplete. No trace of the Memorandum is found in the Promptuarium Tricassinae Diocesis of the canon Nicolas Camusat, assiduous collector of the ancient archives of the Diocese of Troyes, …

Lirey church

The church in Lirey that ultimately housed the shroud was founded in 1353 by Charny. On 20 June 1353, Geoffroy de Charny, Lord of Savoisy and Lirey, founded at Lirey a collegiate church with six canonries, in honour of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, and in this church he exposed for veneration a Holy …