Relics of St John the Baptist Examined by Scanner
Modern medical scanners were used to examine the inside and make a 3D image of the relics of St. John the Baptist. The study was conducted in the Burgas cardio hospital and was filmed by a team of "National Geographic."To scan had confirmed conclusions made earlier by other methods - that the bones belong to a man of Mediterranean type, between 30 and 40 years of age, who used vegetarian food, said Tsonya Drazheva, Director of the Burgas History Museum and Deputy Head of the excavations on St. Ivan island.
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Part of the calvarioum and right arm of John are supposed to be at the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul/ Turkey. I wonder of those bones were present in this location. The box looked pretty small and this article contained no inventory of the box, presumably an ossuary/reliquary