Doorways in Time, pt. 11: The Bog Bodies -- sec. 1: Something Isn't Rotten in the State of Denmark

“This is a really interesting lecture. My class mates and I were taken to see 'Pete Marsh' The Lindow Man in the late 80's as a history lesson field trip while still at High School. I'd seen Egyptian mummies before then, but they suddenly se…”

“You make an overly simple geographic contrast between “bog mummies” in Northwestern Europe and “more skeletons” in Northeastern Europe. That pattern doesn’t really explain why preservation varies so much: in practice, differences in preserv…”

“There's a fish in the percolator”

“The murder of Malika de Fernandez is such a macabre story, in that the discovery of the remains of a person who'd died in Roman Britain lead to Peter Reyn-Bardt confessing. It's almost like the stuff of improbable horror fiction.”