Typically, bog mummies from the Iron Age are male. However, this isn’t the only intriguing facet of the find. Researchers ...

Since most bacteria and fungi cannot live in sub-freezing temperatures, permanent freezing can also produce a mummy. Placing a body in an oxygen-free environment, such as a peat bog, will also ...

Over the years, peat cutters working the bogs of northwest Europe have uncovered hundreds of mummies. The spongy top layer of a peat bog tends to seal off oxygen from the layers below. A bog's ...

In prehistoric Northwest Europe, it was not uncommon for the dead to be deliberately placed in the watery pools of peatlands.

Forensic Test Reveals a Mummy's Travels Before Death A ground-breaking scientific technique is tracing the life of one of the bog bodies of Northern Europe. Amazingly, it's allowing archaeologists ...