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 ...

The 1999 action adventure movie The Mummy (streaming now on Peacocks) takes viewers back to 1290 BC, in Egypt, where the high priest Imhotep is gambling on love, with death on the line. When Imhotep ...

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, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

In 1949, peat diggers were excavating nutrient-rich moss in a bog near Hunteburg, Germany, when they discovered two desiccated bodies. Assuming the shriveled corpses were the victims of a recent ...

CNN — 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 ...

Thousands of well-preserved, ancient bodies have been discovered in Europe’s peat bogs, leading many to wonder how these early humans met their fate. Now, the first-ever comprehensive study of the ...