Abstract
As a contribution to the scientific knowledge of the Turin Shroud, we have studied by SEM-EDX a small hair fragment (14 × 9 μ) contained in a blood stain located in the Face between the two eyebrows. SEM study of this fragment shows the typical human scale hair pattern. EDX analysis of the fragment indicates that it is mainly made of organic matter, plus a little sulphur peak. The hair fragment was at both cut extremities with a razor blade formed of copper. Comparisons with present hairs of different sorts show that the hair fragment is a shaven down-hair. High-resolution SEM analysis of the pattern of residual melanosomes on the hair surface explains the blond-red colour of this hair observed in optical microscopy.
Highlights
The Turin Shroud (TS), a well-known Christ’s relic, is an intensively studied object in which a body image is imprinted (e.g. Marion & Lucotte, 2006)
As a contribution to the scientific knowledge of the Turin Shroud, we have studied by SEM-EDX a small hair fragment (14 × 9 μ) contained in a blood stain located in the Face between the two eyebrows
High-resolution SEM analysis of the pattern of residual melanosomes on the hair surface explains the blond-red colour of this hair observed in optical microscopy
Summary
The Turin Shroud (TS), a well-known Christ’s relic, is an intensively studied object in which a body image is imprinted (e.g. Marion & Lucotte, 2006). Marion & Lucotte, 2006) This body image is not yet explained by modern science. More recently (Lucotte, 2012) I (GL) have studied by SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy)-EDX (Energy Dispersive X-ray) particles contained in a small sticky-tape triangle corresponding to a blood spot of the Face: only few red blood cells were characterized in the triangle area (Lucotte, 2015c); so they do not explain all the red-brown colour observed of this. Among the numerous triangle particles characterized, only one of them-that is intrinsic to the triangle-corresponds to a little hair fragment. This hair particle is here intensively characterized by optical microscopy and by SEMEDX analysis
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