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John the baptist's relics. with their ongoing quest to trace how his relics were scattered, british researchers tom hian and george kazan have come to the 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 reblgic. it's gilt silver and dates back to the year 1400. what is interesting about the relic is that for the first time we'll be able to compare the radio carbon data with the relic that we've obtained from bulgaria. >> the bone ...

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...