are related has triggered fresh investigation into the study of 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 cabs baptist 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