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Move Over, Formaldehyde: Those Hot Old Corpses Pulled Out of Bogs Have a Dirty Little Secret

Por: Slate Politics February 01, 2023

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Something ancient and mysterious has been burbling beneath the earth for centuries—or rather, someone has been burbling. Lots of someones. The New York Times published a splashy feature this week about : the disposal of dead bodies in bogs. Yes, bogs: the swampy-marshy-gooey places you learned about in grade school. The burial practice flourished for nearly 7,000 years, the story says, particularly “from 1000 B.C. to 1500 A.D., from the Iron... + full article



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