Ghosts of Murdered Kings
Season 41 Episode 3 | 53m 7sVideo has Closed Captions
Bronze age bog bodies reveal the strange beliefs of the long-vanished peoples of Europe.
In the rolling hills of Ireland's County Tipperary, a laborer harvesting peat from a dried-up bog spots the remnants of a corpse and stops his machine just in time, revealing a headless torso almost perfectly preserved and stained dark brown by the bog. Archeologists recognize the corpse as one of Europe's rare bog bodies.
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Ghosts of Murdered Kings
Season 41 Episode 3 | 53m 7sVideo has Closed Captions
In the rolling hills of Ireland's County Tipperary, a laborer harvesting peat from a dried-up bog spots the remnants of a corpse and stops his machine just in time, revealing a headless torso almost perfectly preserved and stained dark brown by the bog. Archeologists recognize the corpse as one of Europe's rare bog bodies.
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