In the summer of 2002 in complete secrecy the Shroud of Turin, the world's most famous religious relic, underwent a major restoration.
As Swiss textile expert Dr Mechthild Flury-Lemberg performed her delicate work on what some still believe to be the burial cloth of Jesus, she noticed a stitch pattern that dated the cloth back to the first Century AD.
Nothing unusual about that - except that in 1988 radio carbon dating had revealed the linen had been made sometime between 1260 and 1390, and that the Shroud was therefore a mediaeval fake.
As Flury-Lemberg scrutinised the Shroud, she realised that the only other cloth on which she had seen the same type of stitch came from Mesada, a town on the shores of the Dead Sea...
On TV
First Shown
| Date | Time | Channel |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday 12 April 2009 | 10PM | More4 |
Last Shown
| Date | Time | Channel |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday 04 April 2010 | 2.25AM | More4 |
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