The sarcophagus belonging to Saint Nicholas, the man behind the legend of Santa Claus, is believed to have been uncovered in ...

Old Coffin of ‘Santa Claus’, Hoping to ‘Find an Inscription on the Sarcophagus’ Archaeologists recently discovered a ...

There's been a longstanding presumption that Santa's clothes are red because of Coca-Cola, but some people have since argued ...

In a major turn of events, a team of archaeologists recently discovered a sarcophagus believed to contain the remains of ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered a sarcophagus that they believe could belong to Saint Nicholas — the generous Christian holy man who inspired Santa Claus. Researchers discovered the ...

Forget everything you know about Santa Claus. Almost everything we associate him with ... They bashed apart the marble floor ...

The gist of it is this: In 1087 two Italian cities, Venice and Bari, raced to be the first to steal the bones of St. Nicholas—known to us as Santa Claus—from a basilica in what is now southern Turkey.

Archaeologists have uncovered a sarcophagus at St. Nicholas Church in Turkey, believed to be the burial site of the bishop behind Santa Claus.

A STONE coffin believed to be that of the original ‘Santa Claus’ has been unearthed by archaeologists. The St Nicholas Church in Demre, Antalya, Turkey, has been an excavation site for ...

A limestone sarcophagus in the Church of Saint Nicholas in Myra, Turkey was found which could be linked to Saint Nicholas himself ...

Amid the palm trees and sparkling Mediterranean waters on southwest Turkiye’s so-called “Turquoise Coast,” the real St.

The sarcophagus is around 2 meters long and researchers ... giving rise to the folklore of Santa Claus around his legacy. Almost two centuries after his death, Theodosius II, the Byzantine Emperor ...