A film-maker has issued a $1 million challenge to the British Museum to prove the Turin Shroud is a forgery.
David Rolfe, whose 1978 Bafta award-winning documentary The Silent Witness sought to unravel the mystery surrounding the shroud, does not accept the conclusion reached in the 1980s that it is a fake.
A source of scholarly debate since its discovery in the 14th century, the cloth was said to have been the burial garment of Jesus, worn until he rose from the dead at the first Easter almost 2,000 years ago.
However, carbon dating, carried out in 1988 under the direction of the British Museum and Oxford University, found that it was a forgery. For many, the conclusive tests were the final chapter for the
