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2003

In 2003, the peer-reviewed, scientific journal,  Melanoidins, a journal of the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities (EU, Volume 4, 2003), published a paper by chemist Raymond E. Rogers, a Science Fellow of the Los Alamos Laboratory, and Anna Arnoldi of the University of Milan. The paper proposed that the images may have been the result of a perfectly natural chemical reaction. While the paper's proposal was pure hypothesis, it underscored the fact that the images are formed by a caramel-like browning of a super-thin film of starch fractions and saccharides that cover the outermost fibers of the cloth. 

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