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Could it come from the same individual as the bulgaria find? >> this is containing the relic. it's 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 gulf treasure, that has connections with the german lord henry the lion. we know that he visited constantinople and requested relics. but it'...

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. >> it's the collagen part of the bone that we want to date. that's 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 it's often not present in that large an amount. and of course, when we're dating very small relics, tiny bones, it becomes very, very difficult to get a useful enough sample size if we're to extract the co...

To laos or germany or wherever to look for downed air men that might have been missing for 40 years and analyze the remains at the largest forensic laboratory in hawaii, and it's just very strange to me that the military would make such a strong commitment to no one left behind for, yeah, a finger bone in vietnam, but won't even use a backhoe at arlington. very, very strange. >> i can imagine a lot of veterans out there want it fixed and want it fixed now. mark benjamin, "time" magazine, thanks so much. >> thanks for having me. moments after the presidench syria stood before his country and ...

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