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.

On a summer's day in 1958, a walker in Salford found a human skull. Discovered in a peat bog, the man noticed a piece of bone ...

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 ...

"Our ancestors saw wetlands as mystical places where they could connect with their gods and the Otherworld." A 1,600-year-old ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...