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>> the scientific quest to date the kansas finger bone attributed to john the baptist is reaching its climax. successful in retrieving enough material for an accurate reading at oxford universitys archaeology research lab, they prepare the sample for the accelerator mass spectrometer. the machine will analyze the amount of radiocarbon in the sample and through that determine the relics age. >> using scientific techniques now, for the first time its really possible to build up a template of scien...

>> repent herod, or you shall be punished! >> youve done this before and you know what youre doing. >> okay. >> well, well just have to see how we go, i think. >> in kansas city, professor tom higham of oxford university is trying to figure out a way of drilling into a relic of john the baptist. >> because here is open already, i think its probably best to go in here first and see how we go. >> he hopes to date the carbon inside the bone and perhaps even get a dna profile that can then be matche...

>> give me the head of john the baptist. >> guards! >> i think when john the baptist realizes that -- that herod is going to execute him is this astonishing sense of ending and conclusion, and he knew, as a prophet, this is the completion of a prophetic call. >> the scientific quest to date the kansas finger bone attributed to john the baptist is reaching its climax. successful in retrieving enough material for an accurate reading at oxford universitys archaeology research lab, they prepare the ...

Show that the date from this particular bone is about six centuries later than it ought to be. >> weve tested now two relics of john the baptist. weve had one date from the first century. weve had one date from the 7th or 8th century, and were just starting now to get a feel for what there is out there, so its very exciting. it gives us a new bit of information, and im hopeful that well go forward from here, and well ask more questions, and well test more relics. >> for tom and georges, the inve...

Sample and through that determine the relics age. >> using scientific techniques now, for the first time its really possible to build up a template of scientific similarities between different individuals to understand more about the movements and the passage of relics across this part of the world during the first millennium ad. >> now, the scientists work is done. they can only wait for a final answer. could this bone belong to john the baptist? new neutrogena® bright boost with dullness-figh...

>> shall we get the bone out and have a look at it now? >> sitting in an elaborate gilt housing dating back to the 14th century, for the researchers, the challenge will be how to remove the bone from its precious casing. and when they try to extract the bone from its mount, theres a problem. >> the mount does not come off of the bone. >> oh, you mean that i cant actually take the bone out? >> no. >> and that means tom will struggle to reach the central part of the finger containing collagen, the...

Accelerator mass spectrometer. the machine will analyze the amount of radiocarbon in the sample and through that determine the relics age. >> using scientific techniques now, for the first time its really possible to build up a template of scientific similarities between different individuals to understand more about the movements and the passage of relics across this part of the world during the first millennium ad. >> now, the scientists work is done. they can only wait for a final answer. cou...

How we go, i think. >> in kansas city, professor tom higham of oxford university is trying to figure out a way of drilling into a relic of john the baptist. >> because here is open already, i think its probably best to go in here first and see how we go. >> 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 ...