Why don’t they just open it up like they did the tombs in Eqypt?
Maybe they want to keep it really respectful so no one riots? He’s one of my heroes, so I wouldn’t be too happy if it were really his remains and they treated them like a lab rat.
I would hope because he is a Christian icon worthy of the highest form of respect.
“Secrets of the Tomb”....is much more intriguing. Then the archeologists can “speculate” forever....Like the Shroud of Turin.
Probably because of the way it's constructed and permanently sealed, opening it would damage it. If it's anything like Peter's casket, that would be a crime in itself to intentionaly ruin such a masterpiece stone work, just to satify someones curiosity. We already know what's in it anyways, the same thing every Pope has been buried with since.