A dozen years of Shroud Science Group

Founded in 2002 by Mario Latendresse and coordinated by the author from 2005, the Shroud Science Group on Yahoo! (SSG) is currently a group of 147 scholars mostly from USA, composed of academics, researchers and scholars presenting a remarkable multidisciplinary approach, necessary for Shroud studies. From 4th of December 2002 to 5th of June 2014, 25763 messages have been exchanged. The SSG analyzed virtually all of the data pertaining to the Turin Shroud (TS), discovering many interesting facts through the various discussions among the members. The most interesting arguments were about the hypothesis of the body image formation and about the flax fabric dating. The SSG organized an International Conference on the TS and three others have been organized by some of its members who also published more than a dozen papers in international scientific journals and many dozens of papers via conferences, websites, books and other journals. This work describes the most important results published by SSG members.