Analysis of textile fragments from the 1988 radiocarbon samples of the Turin Shroud

Analysis of textile fragments from the 1988 radiocarbon samples of the Turin Shroud, Rachel Freer-Waters and A. J. Timothy Jull's 2026 paper in npj Heritage Science, examines two fragments removed as 1988 radiocarbon dating samples by the University of Arizona laboratory, comparing them against the control textiles distributed to the participating labs, and reports no evidence of contamination. Its strength is that it is a peer reviewed re-examination from a journal with a stable digital identifier, directly engaging the original sampling material rather than the dating result alone. Its limit is that it addresses sampling integrity specifically and does not itself resettle the 1988 radiocarbon date, which remains separately debated. This record's author field was corrected in this pass from the journal's own name, which had been entered as if it were the author, to the paper's real authors, confirmed against the paper's own listing on nature.com; the title, publisher, year and url were already accurate.