{"id":5357,"date":"2026-06-05T11:42:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-mystery-of-europes-most-famous-bog-bodies-bbc-global\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:42:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:42:49","slug":"the-mystery-of-europes-most-famous-bog-bodies-bbc-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-mystery-of-europes-most-famous-bog-bodies-bbc-global\/","title":{"rendered":"The mystery of Europe&#8217;s most famous bog bodies | BBC Global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iK2zPLwxvZM?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The Tollund Man and Grauballe Man are two of Denmark&#8217;s most famous &#8216;bog bodies,&#8217; preserved for over 2,000 years in peat bogs.<\/p>\n<p>Thought to have died in ritual sacrifices, they bridge archaeology and mystery.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTheir remarkably lifelike faces, skin and body parts raise\u00a0questions and offer some clues about life and death in Iron Age Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to BBC Global: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/bbc_global?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news, analysis and features, visit: www.bbc.com<\/p>\n<p>#bbc #archeology #history #discovertheworld<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iK2zPLwxvZM\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tollund Man and Grauballe Man are two of Denmark&#8217;s most famous &#8216;bog bodies,&#8217; preserved for over 2,000 years in peat bogs. Thought to have died in ritual sacrifices, they bridge archaeology and mystery. \u00a0 Their remarkably lifelike faces, skin and body parts raise\u00a0questions and offer some clues about life and death in Iron Age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":5358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,7720,17,10462,21,1367,18,193,77,496],"class_list":["post-5357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie","tag-bbc","tag-bbcglobal","tag-bbcnews","tag-discovertheworld","tag-documentary","tag-explainers","tag-factual","tag-history","tag-science","tag-world","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357","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\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5359,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions\/5359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}