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svieira on Oct 19, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Shroud of Turin: History and Legends

We have known paintings from the time period - the paint is still visible under a microscope.

tsimionescu on Oct 19, 2024 [–]

Yes, because those paintings were preserved as paintings. And they were not designed in the first place to look like something other than a painting.

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