New research on DNA traces found on the Shroud of Turin suggests the likelihood that the cloth passed through the Middle East. A scientific article reports the results of new investigations conducted on material from the Shroud provided by Professor Pier Luigi Baima Bollone, a renowned professor of Forensic Medicine who, in the 1980s, claimed to have identified the presence of human blood of the AB group on the Shroud. The new article is authored by Dr. Gianni Barcaccia, professor of Genetics and Genomics at the University of Padua, together with other researchers from various universities. These findings seem to confirm a sojourn of the Shroud in the Middle East and in a saline environment, such as near the Dead Sea, adding another piece to the mosaic of scientific evidence supporting the Shroud’s authenticity.
