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Since the earth cooled. >> roughly, we are having the carbon data people doing it. but when you have been in politics for more than 40 years, there is going to be tape and stuff. one of the newcomers barack obama had was no tape. you dont have the record. >> harris: records of polls saying that he and elizabeth warren have gone down, bernie sanders is going up. but this is tight, tight, tight. your thoughts? >> our average pole has it even tighter. >> harris: is joe biden in trouble? >> he is in...

>> bulgaria was the first time that we had really formally investigated using modern scientific techniques a relic that was found in a place which had a very reliable context. >> and when the results of the carbon dating finally come in, they discover something truly remarkable. >> when it came through, my jaw was a little bit down on the floor. >> right there, 30 a.d., thats when john the baptist is thought to have died. you can see the date fits right within that margin. >> 30 a.d., a date con...

In 2010 the world of archaeology was galvanized by the discovery in bulgaria of a relic whose date and dna are compatible of those with john the baptist. in oxfords archaeology lab they wait for the results of the new test as they look to build up a comprehensive date map of relics across europe. could this latest test match the individual from bulgaria? >> heres the actual date. so thats much younger than john the baptist. its not john the baptist so its not the same finger that we looked at in...

In this particular case we have managed to show that the date from this particular bone is about six centuries later than it ought to be. >> we have tested now two relics of john the baptist. one day from the 1st century and one from the 7th or 8th century and were starting to get a feel for what there is out there. it gives us a new bit of information and im hopeful that well go forward from here and ask more questions and test more relics. >> for tom and george the investigation goes on with a...

Compare the carbon data relic with the one weve already obtained from bulgaria. >> the bone has been identified as a human bone coming from a hand. >> whats interesting about the finger is its part of a medieval treasure, the guelph treasure, that has connections with the german lord henry the lion. we know that he visited constantinople and requested relics. but its possible that may have had origins much older than that. ♪ >> should we get the bone out and have a look at it now? >> sitting i...

And he knew, as a prophet, this is the completion of a prophetic call. >> successful in retrieving enough material for an accurate reading at oxford universitys archaeology research lab they prepare the sample. the machine will analyze the amount of radio carbon in the sample and through that determine the relics age. >> using scientific techniques now for the first time its possible to build up a template of scientific similarities between different individuals to understand more about the move...

Trying to figure out a way of drilling into a relic of john the baptist. >> i think its best to go in here. >> he hopes to date the carbon inside the bone and perhaps even get a dna profile that can then be matched against the first century relic he has already tested from bulgaria. >> its the collagen part of the bone that we want to date. thats the protein part. and that, in modern people, is about 20% by weight. but of course, in older materials, the collagen decays and degrades. and so its o...

Coming of the lord, the lord being jesus himself. >> 2,000 years on, the possibility that john and jesus are related has triggered fresh investigation into the study of john the baptists relics. with their ongoing quest to trace how his relics were scattered, british researchers tom higham and george kazan have come to the nelson-atkins museum in kansas city, missouri. they want to analyze an ancient treasure reputed to be the finger of john the baptist. could it come from the same individual as...