Researchers are curious to know, for example, if any of the bog people were related, but they have been unable to extract any DNA from the bodies. We have tried and tried, says Fischer, but acidic bog ...

This is the peculiar appeal of “The Mysterious Bog People” exhibition, the same traveling show that Pringle saw in Ottawa and which is on display at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles ...

They found that the people shared an extremely similar diet with one another; it consisted mainly of terrestrial food sources such as cattle, pigs, sheep and goats, as well as barley and wheat. This ...

Bog-mummified people are mainly found in raised bogs — discrete, dome-shaped masses of peat that typically form in lowland landscapes and reach depths of 30 feet or more.

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 ...

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 centuries-old mystery of their origins.

America's Bog People Near Florida's Disney World, archeologists unearth an 8,000-year-old cemetery. 10 Ways to ...

Bog-mummified people are mainly found in raised bogs — discrete, dome-shaped masses of peat that typically form in lowland landscapes and reach depths of 9m (30ft) or more.

Medieval people have a reputation for being superstitious—and many of the supernatural phenomena found in the pages of ...