{"id":1064,"date":"2023-07-21T02:04:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T02:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/ancient-dna-reveals-the-truth-about-vikings-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T02:04:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T02:04:06","slug":"ancient-dna-reveals-the-truth-about-vikings-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/ancient-dna-reveals-the-truth-about-vikings-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient DNA reveals the truth about Vikings &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8kEYYOQpTVQ?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Vikings are often thought of as &#8216;pure-bred&#8217;, blonde-haired, and blue-eyed warriors who changed the course of European history.<\/p>\n<p>Now a team of international scientists has debunked this modern-day myth of the Vikings by examining their genetic ancestry. The largest-ever DNA sequencing of Viking remains reveals their surprising ethnic diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Video by Alexandra Rasmussen<br \/>\nExecutive producer: Camelia Sadeghzadeh<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8kEYYOQpTVQ\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vikings are often thought of as &#8216;pure-bred&#8217;, blonde-haired, and blue-eyed warriors who changed the course of European history. Now a team of international scientists has debunked this modern-day myth of the Vikings by examining their genetic ancestry. The largest-ever DNA sequencing of Viking remains reveals their surprising ethnic diversity. Video by Alexandra Rasmussen Executive producer: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15,17,16,18,19],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-factual","tag-features","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}