Compare this portrait painted by an eight-year-old prodigy, who said Jesus visits her, with the image on the Shroud of Turin.  
HuffingtonPost.com by Ileana Llorens (excerpts):  A series of experiments conducted by Italian researchers indicate the Shroud of Turin is likely authentic, but the team has not yet reached a definite conclusion.  Decades of research on Jesus's proposed burial cloth have revealed an array of conflicting ideas surrounding the shroud's authenticity.  However, researchers from Italy's National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, believe their findings undermine previous theories that the shroud was faked in the medieval period, the Telegraph reports.  The new claim seems to again stir controversy, as many point to previous research to the contrary.  Last year, scientists were able to create replicate marks on the cloth using highly advanced ultraviolet techniques that weren't available 2,000 years ago - nor during the medieval times, for that matter.  Research in the 1980s suggests the image was "forged" on the cloth between 1260 and 1390, but scientists have determined the hypothesis was based on testing material from a patch likely used to repair the cloth after a fire, the BBC reports.  Since the shroud and "all its facets" still cannot be replicated using today's top-notch technology, researchers suggest it is impossible that the original image could have been created in either period.  However, scientists are willing to point out the flaw in their findings, the Vatican Insider reports:  "This inability to repeat (and therefore falsify) the image on the Shroud makes it impossible to formulate a reliable hypothesis on how the impression was made."  Still, lead researcher professor Manuela Marinelli estimates the cloth is at least 95 percent authentic, the Voice of Russia points out.  "Nobody can give 100 percent guarantees 2,000 years after it had been found."  The research team emphasizes their inclinations are not definite, but the Vatican Insider points out one of history's biggest mysteries still has no answer: "Regardless of the age of the Shroud, whether it is medieval (1260 - 1390), as shown by the controversial dating by radiocarbon, or older, as indicated by other investigations, and regardless of the actual importance of controversial historical documents on the existence of the Shroud in the years preceding 1260, the most important question, the 'question of questions' remains the same: 'How did that body image appear on the Shroud?'"

Commentary:  Not mentioned in this article, is the fact that pollens on the Shroud were scientifically dated to the time of Christ during earlier studies.  It has been widely recognized that the radiocarbon dating was botched, because the testing was completed on an area of the cloth that was mended after it was damaged by fire in 1532.  An astonishing discovery was made when an eight-year-old prodigy by the name of Akiane Kramarik, painted a portrait of the same Jesus she said visits her.  The name of her portrait, again, completed at the age of eight, is "Prince of Peace."  After her portrait of Christ was publicized, one of the scientists who examined the Shroud contacted Akiane about the amazing resemblance the Shroud has to her portrait of Jesus.  Another profound thing happened when Colton Burpo, not quite four years old, suffered a near death experience when his appendix burst.  He later told his parents (who authored a book about Colton's experiene, "Heaven is for Real") that he saw Jesus in heaven.  His parents showed him many pictures of Jesus while shopping, in books, paintings and photos, but Colton said none of the many pictures of Jesus really looked like Jesus, until he saw the Jesus Akiane painted at the age of eight!  You can read more about these facts and a blog full of testimonials about the Shroud at this link: Shroud of Turin.  People have come to believe in the Savior through the testimonies of these children.  Jesus said, "...out of the mouth of babes and sucklings, You have perfected praise" Matthew 21:16.