Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 228
? 228 makes no reference to any images on the cloth because they were not so profound then, but matured with time. These theories require the anointing of the Shroud with some kind of aromatic that facilitated a chemical reaction. Above all, they require conditions synonymous to a living body before images are formed, and should the Shroud be authentic, there will be little doubt to believe that it wrapped the body of a living Christ. Between 1897–1902, Albert Gayert, unearthed excavations at Antinoe, a town built on the Nile in Egypt by the Roman Emperor Hadrian in A. D. 132. One of the Christian bodies unearthed had undergone shroud burial with ‘a face veil, folded in four, that bears the apparently undistorted imprint of the dead person’s face, simi- lar to the Shroud’s death mask. The experts think that this fourfold impression was made by some chemical process involving spices. ’ The author has already quoted in Chapter 4 an eyewitness account by an Essene brethren in a letter to a fellow-brother in Egypt. Is it not possible that this letter is now all the more authentic in view of this Egyptian discovery of a similar shroud? Authenticity of the Shroud The authenticity of the Shroud of Turin has further been proved by: 1. Dr. Max Frie, a criminologist and pollen analysis specialist.