It shows trauma and torture. It hurts to look at it. We can see the ugliness of sin and human evil. Kazyak located two photographs of bloody patterns on cloth. But the second was of a more humble piece of linen, woven in a taffeta pattern.
Researchers claim they have found documentary evidence tracing it to first-century Jerusalem.
They are exactly the same size and shape. Each cloth has matching blood and serum stains from the mouth, nose, beard and hair of someone who appears to have been beaten, crowned with thorns and killed by asphyxiation, which is consistent with crucifixion. The length of the broken noses on both is 8 centimeters. This makes sense, according to a 1998 paper published by a trio of Spanish scholars. Under Hebrew law, it was the custom to cover a corpse's face when it became bloody or disfigured.