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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...

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...