Author: Christopher Knight &
Robert Lomas
Price: £6.99
ISBN: 0-09-922732-0

 

The Second Messiah reveals that the Turin Shroud, far from being an icon of the established church, provides scientific evidence of an alternative, hidden history of Western civilisation and the secret societies that have controlled it.

For almost seven and a half centuries a piece of cloth was venerated because it bore the image of the crucified Christ, but in 1988 results of carbon dating showed that the fabric could not pre-date 1260. Now new evidence conclusively proves that it is not a fake... yet neither is it the image of Jesus Christ.

In solving the riddle of the shroud this book unravels a far deeper mystery: how this medieval artefact links directly both to Jesus and the man believed to be Jesus's successor...

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