A study has revealed the Shroud of Turin may actually be Christ’s burial cloth and AI tools have now created ‘realistic’ depictions of Jesus
An artificial intelligence tool has generated an image of Jesus Christ based on the Shroud of Turin’s faint image of the Son of God.
The Shroud of Turin – also known as the Holy Shroud – is a 14ft sheet of linen cloth that bears the faint image of a man on the front and back.
Currently on display at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy, it’s always believed the artefact dates back to medieval times.
However, a recent study revealed the Shroud may’ve been Jesus Christ’s burial cloth.
The first recorded date of the shroud in history is from 1354 when it was put on display in a village in north France.
However, in 1389, it was slammed as being a forgery and another study in the 1980s accused it of being a painted forgery and instead dated the shroud as being from around 1260AD to 1390AD.
However, an x-ray study published in the Heritage Journal in 2022 resolved that the linen is actually from around 2,000 years ago – around the time Jesus Christ was alive, suggesting it was used to wrap him.
The study further claimed that the previous analysis of the Shroud may have been impacted by contamination.
And obviously, an outlet has since asked an AI tool to generate an image of Jesus from the faint image on the cloth.
The Shroud of Turin (Getty Images/ Bettmann)
An artificial intelligence (AI) site called Midjourney was asked to generate a realistic image of Jesus Christ from the faint image on the cloth by the Daily Express.
The image shows a man with hair which reaches just below his shoulders along with a beard and moustache – he basically just looks like exactly how most images of Jesus have ever been presented in history.
However, the man also has what seems to be cuts on his face and body, which could signal Christ’s crucifixion.
And the Daily Express isn’t the only outlet to have asked an AI tool to generate a realistic image of Christ from the linen cloth.
Midjourney’s generated realistic image of Christ based off the cloth (Daily Express/ Midjourney)
MailOnline also asked the AI tool Merlin to generate an image of the Son of God ‘based on the face in the Shroud of Turin’.
The image shows a less realistic depiction of Christ, however, similarly to Midjourney’s creation, the man has the same sort of wavy, shoulder-length hair, alongside a beard and moustache, as well as scratches up and down both sides of his cheeks and forehead too.
In this image, there is a cloth over Christ’s head.
