A fragment of linen from the wrap of a 2,300-year-old ancient Egyptian mummy matches a piece found in the US, revealing spells from the Book of the Dead.

The 53-square-foot rectangle of linen known as the Shroud of Turin is one of the most sacred religious icons on Earth, venerated by millions of Christians as the actual burial garment of Jesus Christ.

The team also compared the shroud with samples from linens manufactured between 1260 and 1390 AD, finding none were a match. 'To make the present result compatible with that of the 1988 ...

Archaeologists have digitally reunited two fragments of a 2,300-year-old linen mummy wrapping covered in hieroglyphics from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. As Laura Geggel reports for Live ...

For Mr. Petitfils, the Holy Shroud is infinitely more than a yellowed rectangular linen sheet, 4.42 meters long and 1.13 meters wide, bearing the blurred image (front and back) of a man with ...

The shroud, which dates to about 9BC, was found during "an in-depth assessment" of Egyptian collections. A new, permanent ancient Egypt gallery will open in 2018/19.

The Shroud of Turin, the controversial piece of linen that some believe to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, could finally be dated accurately. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience ...

88 years after arriving from Alexandria, 2,200-year-old remains of Egyptian priest go on display in Jerusalem after thoroughly modern examination. ... Alex’s toes poke out of his linen shroud.

Among the research indicating a medieval origin for the Shroud is pivotal radiocarbon study conducted in the late 1980s, which concluded that the linen dates to between A.D. 1260 and A.D. 1390 ...

Ancient Egyptian Shroud Gets New Life After Rediscovery in Scottish Museum Collections The shroud, which dates to Egypt’s Roman period, is etched with a hieroglyphic inscription and “unusual ...

In fact, Mattingly and his colleague Leoncio Garza-Valdes have found several different species of bacteria colonizing pieces of the Shroud, including some organisms that had never been seen before.