shroud of turin may now be genuine

In 1988, carbon dating tests on the Shroud of Turin (a piece of cloth believed by some to have served as Jesus' burial shroud) showed the material to be only a few hundred years old. After performing further tests, however, Raymond Rogers is now arguing that the 1988 tests used fragments that had been woven in as patches in more recent history, and that the rest of the cloth is much older. He places the age of the shroud between 1,300 and 3,000 years. (Link to BBC article.)