Watch Mummies

A travel tour of the world, based on some of the impressive mummy finds both known and not so well known, tells five compelling stories from five travel locations. The program looks not only at the mummies, but also at the remarkable finds found around the mummies - their weapons, wealth, wardrobes and tombs.

Every so often, the world's coldest places are the setting for a remarkable discovery: an ice mummy. Where these bodies have been buried in frozen ground, ice or snow, we are treated to the extraordinary preservative effects of freezing: hair, eyelashes, fingernails all so well preserved they look as though they could have died yesterday.

Under dark peaty waters lie buried the secrets of history. In Bog Bodies we travel around this world to bring the most amazing examples of preserved humanity back to life, through their corpses and the stories that they tell. Over the last few hundred years, the remains of ancient humans have been discovered during peat-cutting operations across Europe.