“These ‘paper’ bog bodies are documented with varying degrees of detail and reliability.” Before the 19th century, bodies pulled out of bogs were often given a Christian reburial.

Like many other bog bodies, the Ballymacombs More Woman held a dark secret. Her neck vertebrae showed evidence of cuts, pointing to decapitation, and her skull has not been found.

The bodies of Iron Age Europeans are so well preserved in peat bogs that they’re sometimes mistaken for modern murder victims. Numerous examples of “bog butter” have emerged in Scotland and ...

A "bog body," known as Porsmose Man, dates from the Neolithic of Denmark. He met a violent death, according to bone arrowheads found embedded in his skull and sternum.

Bodies were buried in bogs across northern Europe for thousands of years. Archaeologists have undertaken the first comprehensive study of more than 1,000 bog bodies found across Ireland, Scotland ...

Europe’s bog bodies have fascinated people since one was first documented in 1640 in Holstein, Germany. Since then, some 2,000 more bodies have emerged in the wetlands of Ireland, the United ...

Cast into northern European wetlands, bog bodies have long appeared as opaque to archaeologists as their dark and watery graves. But new clues are coming in the centuries-old mystery of their origins.

Everything that matters, the bog bodies tell us, is one day lost. In the museum, I press my face up to their glass cases, and I’m reminded of how limited our knowledge of their world is.

Bog bodies may have their throats cut, been stabbed in the heart and have other cut marks. However, it is absolutely not torture, but a form of ritual sacrifice." ...

Of the 57 bodies where a cause of death had been established through physical evidence or historical sources, 45 involved violence, six died by suicide and were likely placed in the bog in place ...