Bog body - Wikipedia
A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog. Such bodies, sometimes known as bog people, are both geographically and chronologically widespread, …
List of bog bodies - Wikipedia
Bog bodies, or bog people, are the naturally preserved corpses of humans and some animals recovered from peat bogs. The bodies have been most commonly found in the Northern …
Europe’s Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets
Europe’s Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets. High-tech tools divulge new information about the mysterious and violent fates met by these corpses. Joshua Levine, …
Brutality of prehistoric life revealed by Europe’s bog bodies
2023年1月11日 · CNN — In 1984, a peat cutter discovered human remains in a bog in Cheshire, England. They belonged to a man who died a brutal death some 2,100 years ago before being …
Who Were the Ancient Bog Mummies? Surprising New Clues
2014年7月18日 · 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 …
What Makes Bog Bodies Different From Desert Mummies?
2023年10月16日 · Bog bodies, also known as bog people, are human cadavers that have been naturally mummified in a peat bog. Many bog bodies date back to the Iron Age (around 1300 …
What Did Tollund Man, One of Europe's Famed Bog Bodies, Eat …
2021年7月22日 · Many questions about Tollund Man—arguably the most famous of Europe’s “bog bodies”—remain unanswered. Killed more than 2,000 years ago, the Iron Age man was …
Bog Bodies, Europe's Ancient Mummies Preserved In Peat
2024年6月23日 · Bog bodies are corpses that are mummified when they are submerged in highly acidic bodies of water with low temperatures and oxygen levels, such as peat bogs — and …
Bog Bodies - National Geographic Society
2024年5月8日 · Violently killed thousands of years ago, these corpses of men, women, and children have been naturally preserved by the unique chemistry of Northern Europe’s bogs. …
What the Ancient Bog Bodies Knew - The New York Times
2023年1月30日 · Cases are divided into three main categories: bog mummies, whose skin, soft tissue and hair are preserved; bog skeletons, with only the bones surviving; and a third group …