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Scientists say they have found bones to St John the Baptist, who is said to have foretold the of Jesus. The - parts of a skull, bones from a and an arm, and a tooth – were found in the altar of a fifth- monastery in Bulgaria. The building is on an in the Black Sea called Sveti Ivan, which ‘St John’ in English. Tests that the bones are 2,000 years old and that they belong to a man from the East.

Many around the world say they have bones belonging to John the Baptist. The Grand Mosque in Damascus says it has his . other say they have the hand that baptised Jesus. Now tests carried at Oxford University show the bones in Bulgaria may be for . Oxford’s professor Tom Higham said: “When I heard this story in 2010 I thought it was a of a joke….Whether that person is John the Baptist is a question that we cannot definitely answer and probably never .”