In a story that made headlines around the globe, an American microbiologist tells how he reestablished the case that the Shroud of Turin belonged to Jesus Christ and revealed astonishing evidence consistent with the Bible's account of the Crucifixion. Reprint.
Dr. Leoncio A. Garza-Valdes is a pediatrician who lives in San Antonio, Texas. He was an adjunct professor of microbiology at the Health Sciences Center of the University of Texas. As a result of his discovery of the plastic coating produced by bacteria on ancient artifacts, he has established the new discipline of archaeomicrobiology.