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John the baptist's relics. with their ongoing quest to trace how his relics were scattered, british researchers tom hyam 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 silver. it dates from about the year 1400. >> what's really exciting about the kansas baptist relic is that for the first time we'll be able to compare the carbon data relic with the one we've already obtained fr...

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 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,...

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'...

Possibility that john and jesus 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 hyam 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 silver. it dates from about the year 1400. >> what's really exciting about the kansas relic is for the first time we...

Dates from about the year 1400. >> what's exciting about the kansas baptist relic, for the first time we'll be able to prepare the radio carbon data of this relic with the one we've already obtained from bulgaria. >> the bone has been identified as a human bone coming from the hand. >> the fingers are part of a medieval treasure that has connections with the german lord henry the lion. we know he visited constantinople and requested relics. it's possible it may have had origins much older than that. >> joining me to talk about this father jim martin who has written about john the baptist in hi...