People ask me why I spent so many years on a single piece of cloth. The honest answer is that I could not put it down once I started looking at the science. Every time I thought I had reached the end of what the Shroud of Turin could tell us, another study would land on my desk and pull me deeper.
The 1988 carbon dating result is what most people remember. The cloth came back medieval, the headlines moved on, and that was supposed to be the end of it. But the sample they tested was taken from a corner that had been repaired. Once researchers went back and looked at the original linen with WAXS X-ray crystallography and modern imaging tools, the picture changed completely.
That is the story I wanted to tell. Not a defense of faith dressed up as science, and not a science book that ignores what the cloth has meant to people for centuries. Just the evidence, footnoted carefully, with the photographs and analysis laid out so a reader can decide for themselves.
This blog will be a place to share what comes next. Updates on the audiobook, behind-the-scenes notes from the research, and conversations with the people who have spent careers studying the Shroud. Thanks for reading.