Would you eat ancient butter? A 2,000-year-old 20-pound chunk of butter has been unearthed from a peat bog in Ireland, which is said to still be edible. The large lump of butter was discovered by ...

Finding buried treasure is a dream as old as stories themselves. Treasure chests overflowing with gold doubloons, shiny lamps containing genies, gargantuan lumps of thousand-year-old butter. Okay, ...

A Donegal farmer made a historic find unearthing a 22kg slab of bog butter, believed to be one of the largest finds of its kind discovered in Ireland, possibly dating back as far as the Bronze Age.

(CNN) — Turf cutter Jack Conaway was cutting peat for fuel in the Emlagh bog when he made a surprising and smelly discovery. Buried 12 feet under, Conaway found a massive 22 pound (10 kilogram) chunk ...

Earlier this month, Jack Conway was cutting turf in the Emlagh Bog in Co. Meath when he hit upon a round, oblong mass, covered in dirt. It was bog butter, and Conway was likely the first person to ...

When most people picture Ireland, they picture our characteristic green fields and old stone walls. But Ireland also has lots of bog – the Bog of Allen, where I live, stretches almost a thousand ...

Think that butter in the back of your fridge is old? Last week, a man harvesting peat in Ireland’s Meath County unearthed a massive lump of 2000-year-old “bog butter.” It weighs around 22 pounds and ...

Irish workers have discovered one of the earliest examples of packaged and preserved food. An oak barrel dating back to about 3,000 years ago has been found filled with exceptionally well-preserved ...

Long before the invention of refrigerators, ancient people found creative ways to keep their dairy products fresh. In parts of Ireland and Scotland, that sometimes involved burying mounds of butter in ...