In 1949, peat diggers were excavating nutrient-rich moss in a bog near Hunteburg, Germany, when they discovered two desiccated bodies. Assuming the shriveled corpses were the victims of a recent ...

When Roy van Beek was a teenager in the Netherlands in the early 1990s, he made a field trip to a local museum to see an exhibit of bog bodies: ancient human remains, both skeletal and naturally ...

The most famous archaeological finds from ancient Ireland are the “Bog People,” bodies preserved for more than 2000 years in the country’s swamps. Archaeologists believe these Bog People were the ...

Foreword / Val McDermid -- Unveiling the dead : introducing the bog bodies of ancient Europe -- Discoveries & discoverers -- The world of the bog people : space, time and society -- The magic of bog ...

Taylor Gates is an Indiana native who earned her BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Evansville. She fell in love with entertainment by watching shows about chaotic families like Full House ...