NPR's Scott Simon talks with Anna North about her novel "Bog Queen," in which a modern investigator is called to examine a body found in a British bog.

Ancient human remains discovered in an Irish bog in October 2023 don't belong to a teenage boy as originally assumed but rather a young woman, making them an exceptionally rare find. Over the past ...

A re-examination of the last meal of an Early Iron Age Denmark bog body called Tollund Man has revealed new details about his final hours. According to findings published Wednesday in the journal ...

Some 2,000 remarkably well-preserved bodies have stirred up creative theories about their lives. Now technology is revealing the truth about their deaths. A violent endTollund Man’s peaceful face ...

TikTok creators often make “get ready with me” videos, inviting viewers to look on as they comb their hair, apply makeup, and don their OOTD (outfit of the day). But in their take on the viral trend, ...

Bog bodies, which are also referred to as bog people, are preserved human bodies found in the various moss-filled bogs of Britain, Ireland, and other spots throughout Northern Europe. The cold ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,000-year-old man preserved in an Irish peat bog, marking the oldest European bog body ever found with skin still intact. The cool, waterlogged ...

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 ...

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 ...

Europe’s bog bodies have fascinated people since one was first documented in 1640 in Holstein, Germany. Since then, some 2,000 more bodies have emerged in the wetlands of Ireland, the United Kingdom, ...