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Continuing to dispute the theory that the shroud wrapped Jesus' body are scientists at the University of Arizona, who reiterate the results of their 1988 carbon dating of the cloth: The cloth is no more than 600 years old, they say.
The same newspaper reported that among 30,000 people who visited the Turin Shroud in the cathedral in that north Italian city Sunday was the American tennis star André Agassi, who arrived there from Monte Carlo in a pale blue Rolls Royce, declaring himself to be "a deep believer."
He presented his findings at the 16 th International Botanical Congress in St. Louis this month and also offered evidence that the shroud originated in or near Jerusalem, the International Herald Tribune reports.
Based on his analysis of pollen grains and plant images (imprints of flowers and other plant parts) taken from the shroud, Danin says the cloth existed in the eighth century, and maybe even before.
Sometimes enshrined in the Chapel of the Holy Shroud (Cappella della Santa Sindone), it was brought to Turin in the 17th century after a journey 200 years earlier from Jerusalem to France via Cyprus.