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
Find out how peat bogs and other environments preserve corpses around the world.

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

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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