"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.

The boy is now part of a collection of corpses that are referred to as “bog bodies.” Bog bodies have been found in places like Denmark, England, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands.

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 ...

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 ...

All of this was blade trauma. "It suggests, in keeping with several other bog bodies, the involvement of at least two to three armed figures (and possibly other assistants) participating in the ...

The southern bog lemming is more closely related to the voles than to ... The long, shaggy fur is chestnut to brown on the upper parts of the body; silvery gray on the lower parts, and only slightly ...

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 ...