a group of scientist did took sample of the bloodstain for verification, can they go a step furthur? is it technologically possible?
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I am going to assume you are talking about the Shroud of Turin, which may or may not be Jesus (I am on the is not side). Assuming you are right and the shroud is Jesus’s any blood stains are ~ 2000 years old and heavily contaminated and degraded and the likely hood of being able to obtain a DNA sample is very unlikely.
Cells and DNA does not last long if not preserved somehow. So you would not expect there to be any remaining cells from Jesus left. The blood stains are just the leftover minerals from the blood. The red hemoglobin in our blood oxidizes into iron oxide which happens to also be red, although a different shade.
However that being said when they did sample Jesus’s burial cloth they discovered that it was from the renaissance and could not have been older. So it is not the real burial cloth but a forgery made centuries after his death.
Because no one has such a burial cloth, even if it exists. Things like the Shroud of Turin are from the Middle Ages and have nothing to do with Jesus himself. Even if the cloth were to be found, there wouldn’t be much point to extracting the DNA. It might be used to confirm genetic origin (like people do now with DNA ancestry kits). But without known relatives to compare to, it wouldn’t be much use. Also, DNA degrades over time, and most of the cells in blood don’t have DNA, so it is unlikely there would even be any good DNA to extract anyway
Because there’s no archaeological proof that Jesus Christ ever existed.
There’s no documented proof that any particular cloth has his blood on it.
And then there’s the fact that the Romans kept track of everything, but there’s no records of Christ in any of their records.
FYI: DNA collected from the Shroud of Turin was examined. Multiple human samples were found from different people. They determined what areas of the world the people were from based on their mitchondrial DNA. They’ve also typed the DNA on the shroud–it’s type AB.
You mean the Shroud of Turin? They have extracted DNA from it, a lot of various human and animal DNA from different countries is on it so it does appear to be from the Middle East or India. However it’s not generally agreed upon that that Shroud of Turin is Jesus’ burial cloth. Carbon dating indicates that it was definitely woven in the 12th-14th century, around the time of the first records of it being displayed. Obviously the devout believers in the shroud object to this conclusion.
Because no burial cloth for Jesus exists. There’s no physical evidence anywhere of Jesus’ existence. No markings, no gravestones/ossuarry, no portraits, no original writing, no ancient public records, nothing. The earliest recorded information on Jesus comes from a period at least 20 years after his death.
And no, the ‘Shroud of Tourin’ is not the burial cloth of Jesus, and is not 2,000+ years old, It’s a [Medieval fake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating_of_the_Shroud_of_Turin#Official_announcement).
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