john the baptist s relics. with their ongoing quest to trace how his relics were scattered, british researchers tom higham and georges kazan have come to the nelson-atkins museum in kansas city, missouri. nice to meet you. nice to meet you. they want to analyze an ancient treasure reputed to be the finger of john the baptist. could it come from the same individual as the bulgaria find? well, this is our monstrance containing the relic. it s gilt silver and dates from about the year 1400. what s really exciting about the kansas baptist relic is that for the first time, we re gonna be able to compare the radiocarbon data of this particular relic with the one we ve already obtained from bulgaria. the bone has been identified as a human bone coming from a hand. what s interesting about the finger is it s part of a medieval treasure, the guelph treasure, that has connections with the german lord henry the lion.
tom higham and georges kazan have come to the nelson-atkins museum in kansas city, missouri. nice to meet you. nice to meet you. they want to analyze an ancient treasure reputed to be the finger of john the baptist. could it come from the same individual as the bulgaria find? well, this is our monstrance containing the relic. it s gilt silver and dates from about the year 1400. what s really exciting about the kansas baptist relic is that for the first time, we re gonna be able to compare the radiocarbon data of this particular relic with the one we ve already obtained from bulgaria. the bone has been identified as a human bone coming from a hand. what s interesting about the finger is it s 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 it s possible that it may have had origins much older than that.
john the baptist s 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 the bulgaria find? this is containing the relic. it s gilt silver. it dates from about the year 1400. what s really exciting about the kansas baptist relic is for the first time we re going to be able to compare the carbon data relic with the one we ve already obtained from bull garria. the bone has been identified as a human bone coming from a hand. what s interesting about the finger is it s part of a medieval treasure, the guelph
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 the bulgaria find? this is containing the relic. it s gilt silver. it dates from about the year 1400. what s really exciting about the kansas relic is for the first time we ll be able to compare the carbon data relic with the one we ve already obtained from bulgaria. the bone has been identified as a human bone coming from a hand. what s interesting about the finger is it s 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 it s possible that may have had origins much older than that.
john the baptist s relics. with their ongoing quest to trace how his relics were scattered, british researchers tom higham and george kazan have comeo the nelson-ains seum 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 the bulgaria find? this is containing the relic. it s gilt silver. it dates from about the year 1400. what s really exciting about the kansas relic is for the first time we ll be able to compare the carbon data relic with the one we ve already obtained from bulgaria. the bone has been identified as a human bone coming from a hand. what s interesting about the finger is it s part of a medieval treasure, the guelph treasure, that has connections with the german lord henry the lion. we know that he visited