How about living descendants of Ulysses S. Grant - when was the last time they cracked the tomb open and did a tissue sample?
And how do we know these descendants are really descendants?
But I was asking about the purported grave sites of the Apostles. Should I take your raising other issues as a concession that there is nothing backing up the claim beyond the church’s say-so? I always wonder what is behind absolute statements in matters of religious sites and relics. Is it fact or is it faith that it is fact? As for the others...Grant is probably pretty easy to verify given the short time period involved (might even be photographic evidence of the burial). Tut? There is certainly a significant amount of archaeological evidence regarding his existence and rule, but it could be anybody inside the sarcophagus. It seems odd they would mummify the wrong guy when the pharaoh was seen as a god. Not sure who would benefit from the fraud either then or millennia later, but it’s possible.