A new report has been released suggesting that the image on the Shroud of Turin, which many people believe to be that of Jesus, could have been created by radiation from an earthquake, according to UPI.
Experts from Politecnico di Torino in Italy confirmed this week that they feel neutron radiation caused by an earthquake possibly induced the image of a crucified man on the linen cloth, and also could have caused carbon-14 dating completed on it back in 1988 "to be wrong."
Research results were published in a recent edition of the Meccanica journal.
The shroud was first photographed back in 1898. Since then there has been an endless debate regarding if it is Jesus' supposed burial cloth, how old it is, and how the image was produced in the first place.
Radiocarbon dating completed back in 1988 suggested the cloth was just 728 years old, but not all scientists agreed with that conclusion.
Most skeptics feel the dating process created an "inaccurate result" thanks to neutron radiation, which is a process of nuclear fusion or fission which free neutrons are freed from atoms and interact with the nuclei of separate atoms to create what is called "carbon isotopes," according to a report by LiveScience.com.
Scientists have not been able to confirm the origin of the neutron radiation, according to UPI.
The team, led by scientist Alberto Carpineri, said high-frequency pressure waves generated in the Earth's crust during an earthquake could have produced neutron emissions.
Test's included crushing brittle rock specimens under a press machine to simulate results.
Neutron emissions released from a magnitude 8.2 earthquake back in A.D. 33 in Jerusalem might have been strong enough to cause neutron imaging, according to the study.
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