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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 gonn...

We know that he visited constantinople and requested relics, but it's possible that it may have had origins much older than that. >> 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, there's a problem. >> the mount does not come off of the bone. >> oh, you mean that i can't actually take the bone out? >> no. >> and that means tom will struggle to reach the central part of the...

Drill, he can't be sure they've got enough to determine whether this bone could have belonged to john the baptist. in jerusalem, the more john the baptist denounces herod, the more he risks enflaming herod's anger with all the danger that could follow. >> you can talk about repentance and judgment day and maybe not get into much trouble, but you start to attach herod antipas personally, and he's going to attack you personally. >> what's wrong? >> i see herod antipas as a really divided soul. he was really kind of caught between his ambition, his desire to rule and his desire for his wife.

>> with limits to how far he can drill, he can't be sure they've got enough to determine whether this bone could have belonged to john the baptist. in jerusalem, the more john the baptist denounces herod, the more he risks enflaming herod's anger with all the danger that could follow. >> you can talk about repentance and judgment day and maybe not get into much trouble, but you start to attach herod antipas personally, and he's going to attack you personally. >> what's wrong? >> i see herod antipas as a really divided soul. he was really kind of caught between his ambition, his desire to rule ...

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 bulg...