A team of archaeologists from Hebrew University, in association with American and Canadian institution, have announced their discovery of parts of a burial shroud believed to be from ‘Jesus-era’ in a tomb in Jerusalem.
The tomb belongs to a section of a cemetery called the Field of Blood, the supposed site where the traitor, Judas Iscariot, hanged himself.
The researchers said the shroud was used to wrap the body of a man, who they think was a Jewish high priest or a member of the noble class, at his burial.
The newly found cloth, which the researchers says typifies the burial cloths during the time of Jesus, could be used to debunked the authenticity claimed by many about the Turin shroud that bears the imprint of Christ’s face.
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