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 placed in the bog — examination of ...

Many peat bogs have highly acidic water ... turn the skin brown and leather-like, and the result is a human-shaped skin bag that retains astonishing detail—fingerprints, whiskers, wrinkles.

Finding human remains in the bog didn't come as a complete surprise – for centuries there had been accounts of body parts turning up in bogs similar to Lindow Moss across Northern Europe. Peat ...

Peat is a nonrenewable resource because it is being consumed much faster than it can be produced; a bog regrows at a rate of 0.04 inches per year. And this regrowth only occurs in 30-40% of peatlands.

Many bog bodies have disturbingly lifelike appearances thanks to a natural chemistry that prevents the decay of some human tissues. Bogs accumulate a muddy layer called peat, which is made of ...

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.

Lindow Man is a well-preserved human body found in a peat-bog at Lindow Moss, near Manchester, in 1984. He died a violent death, sustaining many injuries before he was placed face down in a pool ...

All in all, over 177 human remains dating back 7,000 to 8,000 years ago were unearthed from a peat-bottomed pond known as the Windover Bog. The corpses were so well-preserved that some of them ...

Sphagnum peat bogs, and there are many varieties, cover only about 3% of the Earth’s surface area. ... Climate change is having the same impacts as human ditching did a century ago.