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Finally, dating the cloth is of limited significance in analyzing a potential [[miracle]], which [[logic]] could have happened (and still could) at any time.  A miraculous imprint of an image could have slowed ordinary decay on which carbon dating is based, so it is flawed [[circular logic]] to try to determine by carbon dating whether the shroud is miraculous.

Finally, dating the cloth is of limited significance in analyzing a potential [[miracle]], which [[logic]] could have happened (and still could) at any time.  A miraculous imprint of an image could have slowed ordinary decay on which carbon dating is based, so it is flawed [[circular logic]] to try to determine by carbon dating whether the shroud is miraculous.

==History==Historians and authors of written works on the Shroud have generally divided its history into two periods of time: a first period, from the time of the [[Resurrection]] ca. 33 A.D. to the fall of [[Constantinople]] in 1204; and the second period from about 1349 to the present.  The first version is based largely on circumstantial evidence.

==History==

Historians and authors of written works on the Shroud have generally divided its history into two periods of time: a first period, from the time of the [[Resurrection]] ca. 33 A.D. to the fall of [[Constantinople]] in 1204; and the second period from about 1349 to the present.  The first version is based largely on circumstantial evidence.

===Comparison with Other Historical Items===

===Comparison with Other Historical Items===