Apr 09, 2020 · The Shroud of Turin is a 14-foot linen cloth bearing an image of a crucified man that has become a popular Catholic icon. For some, …

The History of the Shroud of Turin begins in the year 1390 AD, when Bishop Pierre d'Arcis wrote a memorandum where he charged that the Shroud was a forgery. Historical records seem to indicate that a shroud bearing an image of a crucified man existed in the possession of Geoffroy de Charny in the small town of Lirey, ...

Jul 19, 2018 · The Shroud of Turin, a 14-foot linen cloth bearing an image of a crucified man, first surfaced in 1354. ... HISTORY reviews and updates its …

Turin (/ tj ʊəˈr ɪ n, ˈ tj ʊər ɪ n / ture-IN, TURE-in, Piedmontese: (); Italian: Torino ()) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy.It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865.The city is mainly on the western bank of the Po River, below its Susa Valley, and is surrounded ...

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Turin's cathedral was built between 1491 and 1498 on the site of three 14th-century basilicas and, before that, a Roman theatre. Plain interior aside, as home to the Shroud of Turin (traditionally believed to be the burial cloth in which Jesus' body was wrapped), this is a highly trafficked church. The famous cloth is not on display, but you ...

According to the founding myth of Rome, the city was founded on 21 April 753 BC on the banks of the river Tiber in central Italy, by the twin brothers Romulus and Remus, who descended from the Trojan prince Aeneas, and who were grandsons of the Latin King Numitor of Alba Longa.King Numitor was deposed by his brother, Amulius, while Numitor's daughter, Rhea Silvia, gave birth …

Asti (UK: / ˈ æ s t i / AST-ee, US: / ˈ ɑː s t i / AH-stee, Italian: (); Piedmontese: Ast) is a comune of 74,348 inhabitants (1-1-2021) located in the Piedmont region of northwestern Italy, about 55 kilometres (34 miles) east of Turin in the plain of the Tanaro River.It is the capital of the province of Asti and it is deemed to be the modern capital of Montferrat.

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The Bronze Age is a historic period, approximately 3300 BC to 1200 BC, that was characterized by the use of bronze, in some areas writing, and other early features of urban civilization.The Bronze Age is the second principal period of the three-age system, as proposed in 1836 by Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, for classifying and studying ancient societies and history.