Here we go again. Thanks for Mark Goodacre for this link describing efforts to date a knuckle to the first century. Wonderful how a first century knuckle be positively linked to John the Baptist? Now you understand the post title. It's just paleobabble. My favorite...
Relics
New Evidence for a 14th Century Shroud of Turin Date
Before you say, "well that's obvious," you should be aware that there is serious science behind the idea that the C-14 dating for the shroud is suspect due to contamination (see The DNA of God?: Newly Discovered Secrets of the Shroud of Turin; the author is a...
Thorn from Jesus' Crown on Display at the British Museum
I guess they're using the rest of the thorns collected by medieval relic-hoarders to built a replica of Noah's ark in Kentucky. Oh, wait -- I got the thorn mixed up with pieces from the cross. At least this piece of paleo-nonsense involved a journalist who has grown...
The Bones of John the Baptist?
Have they been found? You don't know how badly I want to say they were inside Noah's ark and now brought forth by the Chinese team. 🙂 (You do now). A link to this article was sent to me today (thanks to Doug in Colorado). Here's my favorite part of the piece:...
Turin Shroud Site from the BBC
There's a nice link within this article to a (sort of) interactive display of the shroud. Nicely done.
Nail From Jesus’ Cross, Suggests Journalist
Oh, those wacky, coherence-challenged archaeo-journalists write the darnedest things! The Bad Archaeology blog has a nice write up this latest archaeo-buffoonery. And I love the term for this sort of journalism in the first paragraph: "churnalism."