{"id":704981,"date":"2010-03-30T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:53:14","slug":"the-face-in-the-shroud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/704981","title":{"rendered":"The face in the Shroud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV align=center><br \/>\n<TABLE id=table1><br \/>\n<TBODY><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><IMG data-recalc-dims=\"1\" border=1 src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/i\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/100330-coslog-body2-466px-1p.jpg?resize=466%2C280\" width=\"466\" height=\"280\"><BR><br \/>\n<DIV align=right><FONT size=1 face=Tahoma align=\"right\">History Channel<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<DIV align=left><FONT size=1 face=Verdana align=\"left\">A computer graphic shows Jesus&#8217; body underneath the Shroud of Turin, as <BR>reconstructed for &#8220;The Real Face of Jesus,&#8221; airing on the History Channel.<BR><br \/>\n<HR><br \/>\n<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/DIV><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<P>Does the Shroud of Turin show the &#8220;real face of Jesus&#8221;? That claim is impossible to judge, even though it serves the title of a documentary about the 3-D analysis of the Shroud of Turin <A href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/shows\/the-real-face-of-jesus\/articles\/the-technology\">premiering tonight on the History Channel<\/A>. What can be said is that the centuries-old image wasn\u2019t just painted freehand. Computer analysis of the imprint on the shroud suggests that it had to be left behind by someone draped in cloth.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>&#8220;Is this the artifact of a real person or not? Definitely it is,&#8221; Ray Downing, the digital illustrator at the center of the show, told me today.<\/P>&#8230;(<a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2010\/03\/30\/2246609.aspx\">read more<\/a>)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2246609\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History Channel A computer graphic shows Jesus&#8217; body underneath the Shroud of Turin, as reconstructed for &#8220;The Real Face of Jesus,&#8221; airing on the History Channel. Does the Shroud of Turin show the &#8220;real face of Jesus&#8221;? That claim is impossible to judge, even though it serves the title of a documentary about the 3-D [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2XoF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806378,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704981\/revisions\/806378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}