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 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 guelph treasure, that has connections with the german lord henry the lion. we know that he visited constantinople and requested relics, but it's possible that it may have had origins much older than that.