The first comprehensive survey of a 7,000-year-old burial tradition reveals an often violent final ritual. The skull of Porsmose Man, who was 35 to 40 years old when he was killed with bone arrows ...

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In a "eureka" moment worthy of Dr. Frankenstein, scientists have discovered that two 3,000-year-old Scottish "bog bodies" are actually made from the remains of six people. According to new isotopic ...

Thousands of well-preserved, ancient bodies have been discovered in Europe’s peat bogs, leading many to wonder how these early humans met their fate. Now, the first-ever comprehensive study of the ...

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PITTSBURGH - The seven mummies on display at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History are nowhere near as famous as King Tut, but they're just as intriguing. Take the 2,000-year-old body of a teenager, ...

A North Dakota State University anthropology professor is spending her summer researching 2,000-year-old mummies. Heather Gill-Robinson is the only researcher in North America to have access to bodies ...

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 his ...

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 ...

A display in Germany in 2005 shows a bog mummy named “Red Franz.” Researchers have now conducted the first large-scale study of Europe’s bog mummies. GENE J. PUSKAR ASSOCIATED PRESS Thousands of ...