{"id":73089,"date":"2017-10-06T23:23:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T06:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/santa-claus-lies-in-an-ancient-undisturbed-grave-in-turkey-claim-archaeologists"},"modified":"2017-10-06T23:23:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T06:23:50","slug":"santa-claus-lies-in-an-ancient-undisturbed-grave-in-turkey-claim-archaeologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/santa-claus-lies-in-an-ancient-undisturbed-grave-in-turkey-claim-archaeologists","title":{"rendered":"Santa Claus Lies in an Ancient Undisturbed Grave in Turkey, Claim Archaeologists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/santa-claus-lies-in-an-ancient-undisturbed-grave-in-turkey-claim-archaeologists.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite what you may have heard, Santa Claus is \u2013 or was \u2013 real, and archaeologists in Turkey think they\u2019ve pinpointed the location of his final resting place.<\/p>\n<p>Centuries before the jolly red mascot became a fixture of Christmas consumerism, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Nicholas\">Saint Nicholas<\/a> was a 4th century bishop who inspired the modern Santa myth \u2013 and new claims suggest the grave of this gift-giving churchman lies beneath an ancient church in southern Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>After three months of investigations, Turkish archaeologists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/body-of-st-nicholas-kept-in-demre-claims-officians-120315\">say they\u2019ve discovered<\/a> what looks like an intact temple and burial grounds underneath Saint Nicholas Church in the province of Antalya, in a town called Demre \u2013 formerly known as Myra, where Saint Nicholas was made bishop.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-undisturbed-grave-of-santa-claus-may-have-been-found-in-an-ancient-turkish-tomb\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-undisturbed-grave-of-santa-c...rkish-tomb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite what you may have heard, Santa Claus is \u2013 or was \u2013 real, and archaeologists in Turkey think they\u2019ve pinpointed the location of his final resting place. Centuries before the jolly red mascot became a fixture of Christmas consumerism, Saint Nicholas was a 4th century bishop who inspired the modern Santa myth \u2013 and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73089","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}