Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. In 1984, a peat ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
About 5,200 years ago, a man’s life ended violently in a peat bog in northwest Denmark. Now, researchers have used advanced genetic analyses to tell the unexpected story of “Vittrup Man,” the oldest ...
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 ...
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. About 5,200 years ...