Ian Wilson is the World's foremost expert on the history of the Shroud. Barrie Schwortz was the official photographer for the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP), a team of scientists employed by various organizations such as the US Air Force Academy, NASA, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Medical community including Forensic Pathologists and Blood Porphyrins.

STURP conducted a battery of tests on the Turin Shroud in 1978 thus leading to the controversial Carbon 14 Dating tests conducted by several research universities in 1988.

The book offers a pictorial array of photographs of the Turin Shroud as well as photgraphs of the scientific testing and microscopic detail. ( )