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Bog Bodies

Bog Bodies

In northern and western Europe, bog bodies are a common occurrence. Several hundred bodies have been discovered in peat bogs, mostly in Germany and Denmark, but there are also known cases in all the other northern and western European nations. It is challenging to...
Bog body

Bog body

A bog body is a human cadaver that has been naturally mummified in a peat bog. Such bodies, sometimes known as bog people, are both geographically and chronologically widespread, having been dated to between 8000 BCE and the Second World War.[1] The unifying factor of...