{"id":196071,"date":"2024-09-12T15:24:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/evidence-of-merlins-grave-unearthed-in-scotland-was-king-arthurs-wizard-adviser-real"},"modified":"2024-09-12T15:24:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T20:24:08","slug":"evidence-of-merlins-grave-unearthed-in-scotland-was-king-arthurs-wizard-adviser-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/evidence-of-merlins-grave-unearthed-in-scotland-was-king-arthurs-wizard-adviser-real","title":{"rendered":"Evidence of Merlin\u2019s grave unearthed in Scotland: Was King Arthur\u2019s wizard adviser real?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/evidence-of-merlins-grave-unearthed-in-scotland-was-king-arthurs-wizard-adviser-real.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There may be some truth to the myth of Merlin.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, archeologists in Scotland <a href=\"https:\/\/archaeologyreportsonline.com\/PDF\/ARO56_Ancient_Tweeddale.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed evidence<\/a> of the legendary wizard\u2019s death in Drumelzier between the 6th and 7th centuries \u2014 and the findings could change the way we tell Merlin\u2019s tale.<\/p>\n<p>Merlin was said to have been a loyal advisor to King Arthur amid the Dark Ages before being imprisoned, killed and buried along the river Tweed, according to Vita Merlini Sylvestris (the Life of Merlin of the Forest), a medieval manuscript of his life which is currently held at the British Library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may be some truth to the myth of Merlin. On Tuesday, archeologists in Scotland revealed evidence of the legendary wizard\u2019s death in Drumelzier between the 6th and 7th centuries \u2014 and the findings could change the way we tell Merlin\u2019s tale. Merlin was said to have been a loyal advisor to King Arthur amid [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}