Timewatch

Season 7, Episode 6

Episode Title: Verdict on the Shroud

Air Date: 1988-07-27

Overview:

How old is the Shroud of Turin? To millions of believers it's the burial cloth of Jesus, to sceptics it's a clever medieval fake. Recently the age of the shroud was finally determined by radiocarbon dating. A Timewatch team went to Turin to follow the preparation of the shroud for the scientists, and to Zurich to film the actual tests.