ABSTRACT
Almost everyone, at least once, has heard of the so-called Holy
Shroud, the Shroud of Turin, or more simply the Shroud, perhaps
referring to the fact that the body image depicted on the cloth had
been painted by a medieval artist. However, very few people had the
chance to investigate the number of mysteries that make the Shroud
a unique object in the world, not only impossible to reproduce but
also impossible to be explained only by scientific means. In this first
chapter, we are going to conduct readers into thesemysteries and, in
the end, lead them toward some explanatory hypotheses.
