Shroud of Turin - Negative And Positive Face Images

SHROUD OF TURIN - NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE FACE IMAGES

Last Updated : July 23, 2006

On the left side of this image, we see a closeup of the face
on the Shroud of Turin as it appears to the human eye. On
the right side is a photographic negative of the same face.
The negative image has been flipped left to right so that it
appears as it would on a photographic negative. This causes
the dark bloodstain on the forehead to be reversed, and thus
reveal the distinctive '3' shape, by which it is most often
identified.

This reversing of the image allows us to get a better idea
of what the person may have actually looked like in real
life. This is because the image on the Shroud was
mysteriously etched there in a negative form, just like a
phototgraphic negative; so it was necessary to reverse it,
in order to determine what the person who was wrapped in the
Shroud, may have looked like. In other words, a negative was
created of the negative on the Shroud, in order to produce a
normal 'positive' image, in which light and dark contrast
are situated in the right places. Despite their various
endeavors to do so, modern science has yet to satisfactorily
explain how the image on the Shroud was created.