incorrect....scientific inquiry found that it was made sometime in the 1400-1500's...and to take it one step further artists have examined it and found that the front and make are not proportional (therefore making it impossible to have the image of a real person) and that the part for the face/head was 2 dimensional so it would look correct on a piece of cloth (if it were three dimensional it would look stretched out on a 2 dimensional piece of cloth...much how the earth looks round on a globe but elongated on a map).