{"id":1170,"date":"2023-08-13T01:25:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T01:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/ancient-dna-reveals-the-truth-about-vikings-bbc-reel-2\/"},"modified":"2023-08-13T01:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T01:25:14","slug":"ancient-dna-reveals-the-truth-about-vikings-bbc-reel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/ancient-dna-reveals-the-truth-about-vikings-bbc-reel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient DNA reveals the truth about Vikings   BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8kYY0pudvd8?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.<br \/>\nNow 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<br \/>\nFrom BBC Reel<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8kYY0pudvd8\">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":78,"featured_media":1171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humans","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","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\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}