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.

As was the fashion of the era, these were often stowed in matching boxes, cunningly styled to look like classic, leather-bound books ... titled The Body in the Bog. It detailed how, in 1984 ...

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 ...