hey claim that if the Shroud had been subjected to a blast of radiation, the amount of radioactive Carbon-14 would have increased and the Shroud would appear to be much younger than it really is.” (Picknett & Prince 2000, p:103.) There was a second category of theories to account for the formation of the image. “The rare natural process, chemical reaction between the body of Jesus and the cloth of the Shroud. The first such idea was Paul Vignon’s “Vapourographic Theory,” put forward in the early years of this century. He speculated that the cloth was impregnated with aromatic oils that contained myrrh and aloes which reacted aith ammonia gas given off by the body. The corpse of people who die after prolonged torture and covered with sweat with an unusually high urea content, in which ammonia was abundant. Vignon carried out some experiments with these substances and after much trial and error, he was able to produce vaguely shroud like stains.” (Picknett & Prince 2000, p:106.) The Biblical reports of Jesus’ burial are brief the evening of his death, the researcher red in news clippings regarding Matthew’s Gospel, “a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph , begged the body of Jesus wrapped it in clean linen cloth, and laid in his new tomb, which he had hewn out of the rock. ”John, the disciple who was present at the cross, adds that Joseph and Nicodemus, who brought a large amount of aloes mixed with myrrh, spread these spices on the linen as they wrapped Christ’s body for burial.” Tessa Lobregat said “the resurrected Savior left the “Linen cloth” lying in the tomb, and a small head cloth folded in a place apart. Medical men speculated that ammonia escaping from the body caused a chemical reaction in conjunction with the aloes on the sheet, or that the body’s moisture soaked the aloes, staining the linen whenever it adhered to it. Possibly as J...
