Now that 2025 is coming to a close—and good riddance, I say—it’s time to look back and reflect on the carnage. One of the defining themes of the past 11 months, and certainly one most pertinent to the ...

Children from Tyrrellspass recently paid a visit to the National Museum to see the bog bodies and bog antiquities. They also met Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and ...

In March 2003, the body of a man who lived during the Iron Age was discovered in a peat bog in Ireland. Known as the Clonycavan Man, the well-preserved remains indicate that the body was not that of a ...

Over the past centuries, the remains of more than 500 men, women, and children have been unearthed during peat-cutting activities in northwestern Europe. The "bog bodies" were pulled from their soggy ...

Scientists at Dundee University have helped to recreate the face of a man dubbed the Iron Age David Beckham because of evidence he gelled his hair. Clonycavan Man, named after the area he was found, ...

Ancient human remains found in a Northern Ireland bog are believed to be that of a young woman who had her head cut off during an Iron Age ritual 2,000 years ago. The findings, dubbed 'Ballymacombs ...

An odd bullet hole, fake blood, and a body full of arsenic are just some of the mysteries surrounding this cowboy mummy. Meet Croghan Man and Clonycavan Man, two mummified bog bodies that were victims ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ireland’s bogs hold secrets that rarely come to light, yet, offer so many details when they do. Old Croghan Man and Clonycavan Man are two bog bodies now on display at the National Museum of Ireland ...