London, England, Apr 13, 2004 / 22:00 pm
Italian scientists have found another image on the back of the Shroud of Turin, reported The Guardian yesterday. The scientists from the University of Padua also exposed the faint imprint of the face and hands of the figure on the front of the cloth, which is believed to be the imprint of Jesus.
The features of the image are visible only on the outermost fibres of the fabric.
The discovery was reported yesterday in the Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, published by the Institute of Physics in London.
Giulio Fanti, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Padua, and his colleague, Roberto Maggiolo, said they worked on the image from a photograph taken by a churchman in 2002 while the backing cloth was being replaced during restoration, reported The Guardian.