Europe's Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets

Radiocarbon dating tells us that the greater number of bog bodies went into the moss some time in the Iron Age between roughly 500 B.C. and A.D. 100. The roster ...

It's a fiction based in folklore and fact. People have been using peat for ages, and occationally dug up bodies like this. Bogs are, as said in ...

Brutality of prehistoric life revealed by Europe's bog bodies - CNN

They belonged to a man who died a brutal death some 2,100 years ago before being placed in the bog — examination of his well-preserved mummy ...

Bodies in the Bog: Revealing Early European Rituals

Magazine, Smithsonian. “Europe's Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 1 May 2017, ...

The Tollund Man and Other Bog Bodies | Real Archaeology

“Bog Bodies”, or cadavers found preserved in the peat bogs of northwestern Europe, are some of the most well preserved human remains ...

We thought we knew the secrets of Europe's bog bodies. We didn't.

Some 2,000 remarkably well-preserved bodies have stirred up creative theories about their lives. Now technology is revealing the truth about ...

Why do many people imagine that preserved peat bog bodies from ...

There is quite a lot of evidence that there was a ritual aspect to the death and burial of bog bodies. Too much in my opinion to support the ...

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This is really spooky. SMITHSONIANMAG.COM. Europe's Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets ... Each episode was about another of the bog bodies.

Mystery of the Bog Bodies - Scholastic Science World

And he's not alone: Hundreds of naturally mummified human remains have been found in bogs—marshy areas that accumulate peat—across Europe (see ...

Tollund Man - Year 9 Elective History: Archaeology and preservation ...

Tollund man - A face from prehistoric Denmark · Europe's famed bog bodies are starting to reveal their secrets · Who were the ancient bog mummies · Curious case of ...

Who were Europe's 'bog bodies'? Deep look uncovers the secrets of ...

A deep dive into "bog bodies" reveals that ... To investigate bog body and skeleton trends, van Beek and his ... —7 famous mummies and secrets they' ...

Bodies in the Bog: A Reading List - Celtic Studies Resources

Levine, Joshua. “Europe's Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets.” Smithsonian Magazine. May 2017. Menon, Shanti. “The People of the Bog ...

The mystery of the human sacrifices buried in Europe's bogs - BBC

Uncannily well-preserved bodies from the ancient world occasionally surface Northern Europe's bogs. Stranger even than their remarkable ...

Bog bodies - Year 9 Elective History: Archaeology and preservation ...

Europe's famed bog bodies are starting to reveal their secrets. Smithsonian.com article examines how high-tech tools are divulging new information about the ...

Bog bodies: the chemistry behind natural embalming

The Northern European “bog bodies” are like a distant cousin to Egyptian mummies. Bog bodies are so well preserved that you can tell what season ...

Europe's Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets

Joshua Levine, Photographs by Christian Als In 1950, Tollund Man's discoverers “found a face so fresh they could only suppose they had ...

Mystery Of Europe's Bog Body Phenomenon Solved By Scientists

An international team of archaeologists has analyzed hundreds of ancient human remains found in Europe's wetlands, revealing these "bog bodies" ...

Secrets of the bog bodies: the enigma of the Iron Age explained

Offaly, and Clonycavan Man, Co. Meath. They were discovered within months of each other in 2003 and together provide conclusive evidence of human sacrifice, ...

Europe's Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets

Recent analysis of the remains of Windeby “girl,” along with preliminary DNA tests, showed that she was probably a boy. The body's hair, once ...

New study reveals that Europe's Bog Bodies stretched into the ...

Several bog bodies are famous for being extremely well-preserved, such as Lindow Man from the United Kingdom, Tollund Man from Denmark or ...