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Santa Claus' untouched grave may be beneath church in Turkey's Antalya, archaeologist says
Archaeologists may have become a step closer to finding the grave of St. Nicholas, more popularly known as Santa Claus, as they discovered what may be the actual grave of the Christmas saint below the surface of a church in Turkey's southern Antalya province, reports said Monday.
A special section containing a grave site was recently discovered in the St. Nicholas Church, located in Antalya's Demre district, known as the birth place of Santa Claus, Hürriyet daily reported.
The head of Antalya's Monument Authority Cemil Karabayram told the daily that they came across an untouched shrine while conducting digital surveys below the surface of the church.
"We believe this shrine has not been damaged at all, but it is quite difficult to get to it as there are mosaics on the floor" Karabayram said, adding that they need to scale each tile one by one and remove them as a whole in a mold.
Archaeologists may have become a step closer to finding the grave of St. Nicholas, more popularly known as Santa Claus, as they discovered what may be the actual grave of the Christmas saint below the surface of a church in Turkey's southern Antalya province, reports said Monday.
A special section containing a grave site was recently discovered in the St. Nicholas Church, located in Antalya's Demre district, known as the birth place of Santa Claus, Hürriyet daily reported.
The head of Antalya's Monument Authority Cemil Karabayram told the daily that they came across an untouched shrine while conducting digital surveys below the surface of the church.
"We believe this shrine has not been damaged at all, but it is quite difficult to get to it as there are mosaics on the floor" Karabayram said, adding that they need to scale each tile one by one and remove them as a whole in a mold.
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Christmas is cancelled (Original Post)
sarisataka
Oct 2017
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mahatmakanejeeves
(57,391 posts)1. This means war. NT
MontanaMama
(23,307 posts)2. Screwing with Santa's grave
has GOT to bad juju.
underpants
(182,756 posts)3. What, they followed the trail of cookie crumbs?
You'd think someone would've thought about this before.
underpants
(182,756 posts)4. Turkey? Don't anyone tell Megan Kelly about the dark meat.
moriah
(8,311 posts)5. I'm sure CSI will determine he fell off his sleigh....
... and certainly Scandinavian.
Weekend Warrior
(1,301 posts)6. They will open up the shrine and it will be empty.
A religion will be formed.