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http://www.acheiropoietos.info/proceedings/FulbrightAkeldamaWeb.pdf This article totally blows Professor Gibsons false assertions of the shroud out of the water. The claim by Gibson that akadelma tombs site in jerusalem disprove the authenticity of the shroud is completely refuted on the basis of ancient textile evidence from the judean desert and elsewhere. Pietro Savio published a cloth woven in a herringbone pattern dated to 130C.E. Discovered in the excavations of the necropolis at Antinoe. Plus there pre-dynasty burials described by Petrie and Mackay involving large textiles with the characteristic selvedge fringe. In one example a long cloth lay below the body and was folded over it in the same manner as the shroud of turin. Twill-weave textiles of shroud fragments and nearly intact shrouds have been found at various excavation sites in the judean desert and all around in egypt to europe from even before the era of Jesus that have shown this type of weave. Could it be that because Professor Gibson is jewish that he could have a biased here, if not then the alternative exp[lanation is that he ignored the facts and evidences and tried to get some publicity, but the truth is this could have been refuted by the media by just asking a few unbiased experts in the art of ancient weaving. The evidence for authenticity is now more solid then when they started hard research (150k man hours) on the shroud