Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Anna North about her novel "Bog Queen," in which a modern investigator is called to examine a body found in a British bog.

Was he a human sacrifice? A criminal? Scientists are still piecing together details about the life—and death—of the man mummified in a Danish bog some 2,400 years ago. The Tollund Man was discovered ...

Some 2,000 remarkably well-preserved bodies have stirred up creative theories about their lives. Now technology is revealing the truth about their deaths. A violent endTollund Man’s peaceful face ...

Human remains found in a bog turned out to be the body of an ancient person who may have lived more than 2,000 years ago, police announced. The Archaeological Unit within the Police Service of ...

LONDON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Northern Ireland have uncovered well-preserved remains of a teenage boy dating back up to 2,500 years - including bones, skin and possibly a kidney - in a ...

Ancient human remains discovered in an Irish bog in October 2023 don't belong to a teenage boy as originally assumed but rather a young woman, making them an exceptionally rare find. Over the past ...

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 ...

Researchers excavated Bellaghy Bog after a civilian reported seeing bones sticking out of the peat in October. Police Service of Northern Ireland When law enforcement officials investigated the body ...

Archaeology 5,000-year-old stone tomb discovered in Spain is 43 feet long — and it holds many prehistoric burials Archaeology 4,000-year-old human rib discovered high in the Pyrenees still has an ...