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2004

On April 14, 2004, the peer-reviewed, scientific Journal of Optics  of the Institute of Physics in London published a scientific paper by Giulio Fanti and Roberto Maggiolo, researchers at the University of Padua, Italy. Using advance image enhancement methods, Fanti and Maggiolo had discovered a faint image of a second face on the back of the Shroud of Turin.

This discovery supports a hypothesis that the Shroud of Turin's images are the result of a very natural, complex chemical reaction between amines (ammonia derivatives) emerging from a body and saccharides within a carbohydrate residue that covers the fibers of the Shroud of Turin. The color producing chemical process is called a Maillard reaction.

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