An AI video based on a famous religious artifact has revealed what Christ may have looked like.
The Shroud of Turin is an ancient cloth which many Christians believe was used to wrap Jesus’ mutilated body after he died on the cross.
Photos of the cloth were fed into Midjourney, an AI image generator, which then produced a lifelike image and video of Christ blinking, smiling and praying as he may have once did before the crucifixion around 33AD.
The clip was posted on X, where users have called being touted as ‘the true face of Jesus.’
However, others have pointed out that the technology made Jesus appear white when he would have been Middle Eastern with a darker complexion.
‘Impossible, because he looks like me and I’m Norwegian,’ an X user commented on the post.
Dr Meredith Warren, senior lecturer on Biblical and religious studies at Sheffield University, previously told DailyMail.com that while Jesus is widely portrayed as Caucasian, he ‘would have had brown skin, brown eyes, like the local population.’
Dr Warren thinks the best representations of how Jesus might have looked come from the Egyptian mummy portraits.
An AI video based on a famous religious artifact has revealed what Christ may have looked like. The Shroud of Turin is an ancient cloth which many Christians believe was used to wrap Jesus’ mutilated body after he died on the cross
Photos of the cloth were fed into Midjourney, an AI image generator, which then produced a lifelike image and video of Christ blinking, smiling and praying as he may have once did before the crucifixion around 33AD
These paintings were made of men who died between 80 and 120 AD in a similar part of the world to Jesus.
They show men with dark eyes, brown skin, short curly hair, beards and facial features which would have been distinctive of people living in what is now Egypt, Palestine, and Israel.
Likewise, in 2015, medical artist Richard Neave used forensic techniques to reconstruct the face of a Judean man by studying Semite skulls.
The portrait revealed a wide face, dark eyes, a bushy beard and short curly hair, as well as a tanned complexion which might have been typical of Jews in the Galilee area.
While this is just a portrait of an adult man living at the same time as Jesus, this reconstruction gives us a better idea of what kind of features he may have had.
The original AI image was created by the Daily Express using Midjourney, a generative AI that allows users to create realistic images from text prompts, to recreate the face of Jesus from the Shroud’s markings.
In reality, experts say that Jesus would have looked more like the men shown in the Egyptian mummy paintings from the first century AD (pictured). These show dark-skinned men with brown eyes and curly hair
In 2015, medical artist Richard Neave used forensic techniques to reconstruct the face of a Judean man by studying Semite skulls. The portrait revealed a wide face, dark eyes, a bushy beard and short curly hair
AI has recreated the face of Jesus based on markings left on the Turin Shroud, an ancient cloth that some Christians believe the messiah was buried in
The linen shows an emaciated man with long, dark hair, a beard, and cuts and grazes on his face and body.
Interestingly, this AI-generated version of Christ resembles many depictions of him from classical art.
Much like the image, the Shroud has been a lightning rod for controversy, with some disputing the claim that this cloth was actually used as Jesus’ burial shroud.
It has been preserved since 1578 in the royal chapel of the cathedral of San Giovanni Battista in Turin, Italy.
Markings on the body also correspond with crucifixion wounds of Jesus mentioned in the Bible, including thorn marks on the head, lacerations on the back and bruises on the shoulders.
The cloth appears to show faint, brownish stains on the front and back, depicting a gaunt man with sunken eyes who stood about six feet tall.
The Bible states that after Jesus was crucified, Joseph of Arimathea wrapped his body in a length of linen and placed it inside the tomb.
The clip was posted on X, where users have called being touted as ‘the true face of Jesus’
Matthew 27:59-60 reads: ‘Then Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a new linen cloth. He put Jesus’ body in a new tomb that he had dug in a wall of rock. Then he closed the tomb by rolling a very large stone to cover the entrance. After he did this, he went away.’
Christians believe those wounds were miraculously imprinted on the burial shroud after Jesus was resurrected three days later, scorched into the fibers by a burst of energy when he came back to life.
The Turin Shroud has captivated the imagination of historians, church chiefs, skeptics and Catholics since it was first presented to the public in the 14th century.
In 1988, a team of international researchers analyzed a small piece of the shroud using carbon dating and determined it was manufactured sometime between 1260 and 1390 AD, suggesting it couldn’t have been used to wrap the body of Christ.
But in 2022, a study published by the journal Heritage found the shroud to be roughly 2,000 years old.
Italian researchers used a new technique involving x-rays to date the fabric, concluding that it was actually manufactured during Jesus’ time.
They said the fact the timelines add up lends credence to the idea that the faint, bloodstained pattern of a man with his arms folded over his body were left behind by Jesus.
Others have pointed out that the technology made Jesus appear white when he would have been Middle Eastern with a darker complexion
Much like the AI image, the Turin Shroud has been a lightning rod for controversy, with some disputing the claim that this cloth was actually used as Jesus’ burial shroud
‘The data profiles were fully compatible with analogous measurements obtained on a linen sample whose dating, according to historical records, is 55-74 AD, found at Masada, Israel [Herod’s famous fortress built on a limestone bedrock overlooking the Dead Sea],’ the study states.
The team also compared the shroud with samples from linens manufactured between 1260 and 1390 AD, finding none were a match.
‘To make the present result compatible with that of the 1988 radiocarbon test, the Shroud of Turin should have been conserved during its hypothetical seven centuries of life at a secular room temperature very close to the maximum values registered on the earth,’ the study reads.
Lead author Dr Liberato De Caro said in a statement that the 1988 test should be deemed as incorrect because ‘Fabric samples are usually subject to all kinds of contamination, which cannot be completely removed from the dated specimen.’
‘If the cleaning procedure of the sample is not thoroughly performed, carbon-14 dating is not reliable,’ he added.
More than 170 peer-reviewed academic papers have been published about the mysterious linen since the 1980s. Some have concluded that it was Jesus’ burial shroud while others refute this claim.
Thus, the debate about this artifact’s authenticity is still ongoing, and will likely continue for years to come.
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