ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a brief description of the darker period related to its first centuries, beginning with the Resurrection of Christ. The so-called Shroud of Christ, Holy Shroud, Shroud of Turin, Mandylion-Shroud or more simply the Shroud, is the most studied object in the world, in the scientific, archaeological and obviously in the religious field. There are many shrouds in the world, many are in Italy and Spain, but these are all believed to be copies of the Shroud in Turin. The most interesting feature of the Shroud consists of the front and back head-to-head images of a full-size human body separated by an image free space. The rigid corpse was laid out on half of the Shroud, the other half was then drawn over the head to cover the body. Several researchers proposed different hypotheses of body image formation that are interesting but capable of only partially reproducing these characteristics.
