Word: burial
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Victoria L. Merriman '98, a visual and environmental studies (VES) concentrator in Dunster House, finds herself in a rare predicament: She has completed her thesis, a video performance entitled "Burial," but may not be able to perform...
...wait a moment. There's something wrong with this picture. Hasn't this all been settled--and in the negative? It certainly seemed so. In 1988, just as scientific testing and historical scholarship had convinced ever greater numbers of intelligent people that the shroud might indeed be Jesus' burial cloth, its keepers elected to allow one more test. They distributed small samples to three laboratories for radiocarbon dating. Several months later, the labs revealed their verdict: the linen of the cloth dated no earlier than the late Middle Ages. Skeptics rejoiced; romantics were subdued. One crestfallen enthusiast later wrote...
...rendered by no artistic method either of the Middle Ages or of Jesus' time. Publicized by a spate of books, the 1978 findings exposed more people to the shroud than had ever thought of it before--and convinced a hefty portion of them that it was indeed Christ's burial sheet. That is, until an additional experiment seemed to rule out that possibility entirely...
...haven't played with the possibility. In November, Doubleday plans to publish Garza-Valdes' provocatively titled The DNA of God? Scientifically, Garza-Valdes carefully hedges his statements about the shroud, saying only that "as of now, I have no reason to believe the Shroud of Turin is not the burial cloth of Jesus Christ" and that he thinks the blood on the shroud is human, male and ancient. In the early 1990s, Garza-Valdes asked Victor Tryon, director of the Center for Advanced DNA Technologies at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, to help him identify...
...treasures. As many as 1,000 archaeological sites dot the countryside. Most of the monuments--including Bronze Age structures and early Christian basilicas--are integral features of the landscape, unfenced and open to all. From the circular stone constructions called talayots, used from about 1500 B.C. as dwelling or burial places by some of the island's earliest settlers, to the mighty T-shaped taulas, hewn from two limestone blocks, these monuments stand mysterious and largely undisturbed--seldom visited and free of entrance fees, guards and ice-cream vendors...