oh this gets better by the minute, so they thought that the physical impression that the body made on the burial shroud was down to the same principle why a cheap transfer tatoo works? pmsl, then I am saying this with an understanding of science hundreds of years later than when at the time they thought the earth was flat so makes sense I suppose. the question is when was it first thought to be a fake? dont make me google religon related bollox please.
and if the answer is after 1900 then I will lose even more faith in humanity than I already have