Who Were the Ancient Bog Mummies? Surprising New Clues. Ongoing research suggests at least two 2,000-year-old corpses had traveled before their deaths. By Christine Dell'Amore. July 18, 2014 ...

Now in the British Museum in London, the remains of the Lindow Man are perhaps the best known of Europe’s 2,000 or so “bog bodies.” These are mummies and skeletons that have been found mired ...

Cases are divided into three main categories: bog mummies, whose skin, soft tissue and hair are preserved; bog skeletons, with only the bones surviving; and a third group composed of the partial ...

The 1999 action adventure movie The Mummy (streaming now on Peacocks) takes viewers back to 1290 BC, in Egypt, where the high priest Imhotep is gambling on love, with death on the line. When ...

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.

ScreenshotAfter reading about the Bellaghy bog body, dive into nine famous mummies and the stories behind them. Then, read about Ötzi the Iceman, history's oldest preserved human, discovered in ...

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 ...

Mummies are practically synonymous with Ancient Egypt. The term conjures up images of an undead creature wrapped in bandages rising from its sarcophagus deep within a pyramid. But mummies aren’t ...

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.