In 1988, archaeologists uncovered the grave of a Mesolithic woman who lived in Belgium's Meuse Valley 10,500 years ago. At ...

“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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Other bog bodies found throughout the region show evidence of purposeful killing and even gruesome abuses of the corpses. (Reconstructing the face of the Bocksten Man, a 700-year-old murder victim.) ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Research into Iron Age bog bodies by the National Museum of Ireland has shown that these human sacrifices were likely connected to sovereignty and kinship rituals. Speaking to the Irish Examiner in ...