Introduction to the School of Botany:

Here you will find many articles that focus on the data revealed through the pollen removed from the Shroud by criminologist Max Frei in 1978. These samples were later examined by Israeli botanists, Avinoam Danin and Uri Baruch both affiliated with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Also discussed are a variety of flower images that can be visually discerned on the cloth by the trained eye. These two streams of data seem to confirm the Shroud’s historical trail through modern day Turkey and its probable origination in Israel.

 

 

Questions and Topics for Students Do a paper on the botany of the Shroud and how it may support the Shroud’s known and presumed history. How can the evidence from botany be evaluated against its alleged Medieval carbon age. As part of an overall discussion of epistemology as it relates to numerous streams of data that appear to be in conflict. Epistemology asks the question, “How do we know what we know?” The Vinland Map would be another example of science in conflict (see School of Debate).

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	The Flora of the Shroud of Turin by Avinoam Danin
	Shroud Report Interview with Paul Maloney, Research Archaeologist
	Pollen Trail Confirms The Historical Trail: Work of Dr. Avinoam Danin, Israeli Botanist
	Dr. Alan Whanger shows botanical evidence for Shroud's origination in Israel
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