A few weeks – or perhaps even months - after the birth of Jesus, Matthew records the events surrounding the visitors from the east. He refers to them as the ‘Magi’, meaning ‘wise men’.

All we know is magos, the Greek word used for Magi, means “a sorcerer, a magician, a wizard” and scholars believe they came from the East, mostly like Persia (modern-day Iran).

The Cologne Cathedral houses the Shrine of the Three Kings, a reliquary which tradition says holds the bones of the Biblical Magi. But how did they get there? The long journey of the 'Three Wise ...