January
25
/ 2024
Last October, police in Northern Ireland were perplexed after the discovery of human bones and body parts, in peatland. After extensive tests, it’s now known that the remains were not of a modern murder victim, and that the Irish bog body is in fact dated to over 2,000 years old, and potentially 2,500 years old. You Didn’t Want to End Up in A Bog! Violently killed thousands of years ago, “ Bog Bodies” is the term used for the corpses of men, women, and children, naturally preserved by the chemistry of Northern Europe’s bogs. When bog bodies are recovered archaeologists and anthropologists down their trowels and act as crime-scene investigators, applying the disciplines of geology, chemistry, and human behavior to
