High-definition digital X-ray technology is giving researchers in Mexico their first glimpse inside centuries-old reliquaries in the capital's Metropolitan Cathedral.
The reliquaries - containers for holy relics - are life-size, wax body representations of Roman Catholic saints. According to Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, investigators using a portable X-ray machine discovered a cranium, ribs, as well as bones from hands, feet and legs inside the sculpted containers.
"It was almost like they held a secret that only the artist who created the wax figure knew" about, Gabriela Sanchez Reyes of the institute's . . .
