The story of a man found in a peat bog over 2,000 years ago ... and offer an intriguing personal insight to his story. This everyman of prehistoric Britain, has been in the care of the British Museum ...

Given that she was interred in a peat bog, in what was likely an unconsecrated grave, she may have been a murder victim or a suicide. Oldcroghan Man fits the classic profile of an Iron Age bog body.

The body of the man, estimated to be between 20 and 25 years old, was discovered in a peat bank on Arnish Moor on the Isle of Lewis in 1964. He was believed to have been killed about 250 years prior.

When most of us think of bog bodies, we think of northwestern Europe—Ireland, say, or Denmark. But North America has its peat bogs ... thoughts and emotions of a prehistoric people.

The personal belongings of an 18th-century murder victim, hastily buried in a peat bog, have gone on display ... Known as the Arnish Moor Man, the unidentified victim’s remains were discovered ...

sandy graves in a prehistoric cemetery in Upper Egypt. Furthermore, the brain of a man from the Iron Age was preserved in a Danish peat bog. In the Andes, the brains of children who were ...

These bogs vary in depth from a few feet to several yards, and are, in general too soft for the foot of man to tread, yet there are passable foot-roads through most of them. Peat is employed for ...

This allows the whole organism to be seen clearly. Britain's most famous peat bog body is known as the Lindow man. The acidic, oxygen-free conditions in the peat bog meant that the man's skin ...