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.

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 ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

LEWISTON, Maine (WGME) -- Human remains have been found in a bog in Lewiston. Maine State Police say a resident found the ...