Bog body

More than 500 bodies and skeletons were buried in the peat bogs in Denmark between 800 B.C. and A.D. 200. In 1879, Niels Hanson, a school teacher in

Recent bog body discoveries from Ireland, including the latest bog body from Cul na Mona, Co. Laois as well as Old Croghan man and Clonycavan man bog bodies.

(warning: this article features an image of mummified human remains) In general, I don't consider myself to be the morbid type. I've never had a particular fascination with death and the majority of exhibits centered around human remains--like Body Worlds, for example--fail to pique my interest. So a few years ago, when I started researching…

Recent analysis of the remains of Windeby “girl,” along with preliminary DNA tests, showed that she was probably a boy. The body’s hair, once thought to have been shaved to mark a young woman as an adultress, may have been scraped off by archaeologists’ trowels. The band of cloth around the face, at first interpreted as a gag or blindfold used during torture, is now seen as simply a means to cover the eyes of the dead. The boy was buried in a bog in northern Germany.

Elling Woman - Wikipedia - Bog Body

A cavernous wound gapes on Grauballe Man’s throat, cut with such force that the blade nicked a vertebra in his neck. Researchers once thought other damage done to the body meant he was tortured before execution. But recent study has shown that his bones broke during long burial in a Danish bog.

The bones of a possible ancient human sacrifice victim have been found in a bog in Denmark.

Bog Hand

“Summer body” I spent so many years, not enjoying things because I was so self-conscious. Even when I was skinny the idea of having a “summer bod” haunted me. So I know it’s simple to say, then it is to believe. But summer doesn’t require a certain measurement, or size. The sun will come out whether I have stretch marks or abs.