Туринская плащаница

Sensational investigation from the authors of the bestseller "Leonardo da Vinci and the Brotherhood of Zion. Revelations of the Templars"! Shroud of Turin - the burial shroud of Jesus Christ, on which, according to millions of believers, the image of the Savior was miraculously imprinted, is the most famous relic of the Christian world, surrounded not only by a mass of legends and conjectures, but also by many very real dark secrets associated with heretical secret societies and sinister conspiracies among the Catholic clergy. After a radiocarbon study in 1988 determined that the shroud was made not from the beginning of our era, but from the Middle Ages or the Renaissance, disputes over its authenticity not only did not subside, but flared up with renewed vigor. If this relic is a fake, then how did a forger, operating 500 years ago, manage to create an image that hundreds of researchers armed with the most modern technology and materials could not repeat? Finally, who was the madman who, during the rampant Inquisition, dared to forge a sacred relic - the shroud of Christ himself? .. In search of answers, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, authors of the bestseller "Leonardo da Vinci and the Brotherhood of Zion. Revelations of the Templars", came to the conclusion that the great Leonardo da Vinci, a brilliant artist, scientist, inventor, had a direct bearing on the very strange and controversial history of the Shroud of Turin and probably the master of a mysterious secret society. This book reveals many dark secrets behind the possible falsification of the shroud by master Leonardo, and sheds light on the activities of the so-called "shroud mafia", most likely associated with the powerful Priory (Brotherhood) of Sion