"Our ancestors saw wetlands as mystical places where they could connect with their gods and the Otherworld." A 1,600-year-old ...

More than a thousand bog bodies and skeletons have come to light, and scientists now have the means to study the remains in such detail that they can, in a sense, resurrect these ancient people.

On a summer's day in 1958, a walker in Salford found a human skull. Discovered in a peat bog, the man noticed a piece of bone ...

Peat is a nonrenewable resource because it is being consumed much faster than it can be produced; a bog regrows at a rate of ...

When most of us think of bog bodies, we think of northwestern Europe—Ireland, say, or Denmark. But North America has its peat bogs, too, and some of them contain the remarkably well-preserved ...

LEWISTON — Authorities said Monday they had not yet identified the human remains discovered in a bog Saturday afternoon. They provided no other information about the discovery.

Another that captured my imagination was a QED special, titled The Body in the Bog. It detailed how, in 1984, a peat cutter at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, spotted what turned out to be a foot trundling ...

Raising the Dead: Bog Bodies of Northern Europe, page 57: The photo caption and credit for the image of the Windeby I bog body is missing from the print version of the story. The photograph ...

The story of a man found in a peat bog over 2,000 years ago, wearing only a fox fur arm band, is told in Lindow Man: A Bog Body Mystery, an intriguing new exhibition opening at The Manchester Museum ...

To mark this significant milestone, Seamus Heaney HomePlace will host a series of special events including an exploration of ...