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It matts and blackens. But there is nothing of this in the Shroud. It is all so artificial and artistic, not like 42 F A K I N GT H E S H R O U D . the injuries to a real corpse. 'The blood itself on the Shroud has been subjected to forensic chemical testsr' Nickell pointed out, 'and a very odd thing was discovered. ' Proponents of the genuinenessof the Shroud say that it probably at one time hung under a giant fresco ceiling which dripped paint on it. But where and when they cannot say. Nickell found that a 'very ingenuous explanation.
The missile was suspended from one end of a swinging beam, and soldiers pulled down the other end so that the missile flew up at an angle of about 45 degrees,to give it the longest trajectory. Later machines had more efficient mechanical counterweights,nicknamed'testicles' by contemporariesbecauseof their appearance. Trebuchets unleashed tremendous power, and Chevedden warns those who do not know what they are doing against trying to construct them. Hernan Cort6s and his Conquistadors tried to use one when besiegingthe Aztec city of Tenochtitlan in 1521.
In the light of a further statement from the bishop that the unnamed forger had confessed,Nickell decided that the best way to discover how the supposed forgery could have been committed was to attempt one himself. He was struck by the fact that the image of Christ in the Shroud is no ordinary painting but is similar to a photographic negative, in the sense that its prominences are dark and the recessesare light. Believerssay this is due to a burst of energy that accompanied the Resurrection, but Nickell wondered if it had been created by a technique similar to brass-rubbing, the oldest form of printmaking.