BBC Documentaries

4,000 -Year-Old Cold Case: The Body in the Bog (2013x206)

Air date: Nov 28, 2013

Documentary following the discovery and investigation of a 4,000-year-old body that was found preserved in an Irish peat bog, one of hundreds of bodies found mummified in the boglands of Northern Europe. To scientists and historians, it could offer brand new clues to solve an ancient mystery. Can the bog bodies of Europe offer to explain our ancestors' most macabre tradition - ritual murder, or might these deaths be explained by prehistoric climate change?