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Eleusis, home of one of the most mysterious religious rites in ancient Greece, the Eleusinian Mysteries, has been designated the Culture Capital of Europe.
Of the many ancient remains found preserved in bogs and marshes, perhaps the most interesting is the Grauballe man. Discovered in a peat bog in Jutland, Denmark in 1952, experts believe that the man had had his throat slit sometime in the 3rd century BC.