Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists announced recently they had solved the bog body mystery in Europe. A major study of over 1,000 ancient bog bodies across Scandinavia has revealed more information about this intriguing phenomenon that still fascinates the modern world. Although he may look a little lonely, the Tollund Man is certainly not […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Europe’s bog body phenomenon has long fascinated scientists. Many European countries have discovered countless bodies preserved by the bogs’ cool, acidic conditions and organic compounds. Still, despite intensive studies, it is not until now researchers have a complete picture of the bog body phenomenon. An international team of archaeologists has […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Isotope analysis of the “bodies in the bog” found at Cramond reveals several crossed a politically divided Scotland, meeting their end hundreds of miles from their place of birth. For decades, the skeletal remains of nine adults and five infants found in the latrine of what was once a Roman bath house […]