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America's Bog People
America's Bog People In a peat pond down the road from Florida's Disney World, archeologists unearth an 8,000-year-old cemetery.

10 Ways to Make a Mummy
10 Ways to Make a Mummy Find out how peat bogs and other environments preserve corpses around the world.

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Bog Bodies of the Iron Age
Bog Bodies of the Iron Age See where discoveries have been made across Northwest Europe and examine a dozen spectacular finds.

Tollund Man
Tollund Man Meet the most famous bog body of all and learn how scientists reconstructed his final hours. Also, hear Seamus Heaney's poem "The Tollund Man."


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