Aug. 17) - The mystery behind the age of the Shroud of Turin was solved, or so experts thought. Twenty years ago, scientists using radiocarbon dating estimated that the famous artifact was produced some time in the Middle Ages -- a blow to those who contended the material was in fact the burial cloth of Jesus Christ.But now one of the shroud’s most prominent researchers has embarked on a new effort to challenge the findings with the help of his wife. John and Rebecca Jackson, who live in Colorado, insist that flaws in the radiocarbon dating method skewed the 1988 test results by about 1,300 years, stirring controversy over the Shroud of Turin once again

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