The technique involved placing the bodies in a peat bog shortly after death ... or the idea that the mummies played an active role in the community, perhaps offering spiritual guidance.

Naturally preserved mummies have been found deposited in deserts, buried in oxygen-poor peat bogs, and frozen in glaciers. Some ancient societies accidentally encouraged this process ...

Arizona State Sun Devils offensive lineman Keona Peat is joining his brother Koa Peat in the Arizona Wildcats athletics program. The incoming redshirt sophomore transferred to the Wildcats ...

Mummies are practically synonymous with Ancient ... of “bog bodies”—corpses that became naturally mummified in the peat bogs found in northern Europe. The water-logged peat creates an ...

If a mooted ban on the use of horticultural peat gets government approval in the UK, the Scotch whisky industry could be set for increased scrutiny over its use of the precious resource. Pungent peat ...

Credit: Public Domain The Tollund Man, a victim of human sacrifice in Iron Age Denmark, is known as a “bog body,” one of a group of remarkably well-preserved ancient mummies found in Europe’s peat ...

Following long periods of drought, peat is able to absorb little to no extra carbon (CO2). Increasing biodiversity also does little to make peat more drought-resilient. Peatlands are affected more ...

There's sphagnum moss in the peat bogs that interacts with peat and water to create ... The study classified three types of bog bodies: bog mummies, bog skeletons, and partial remains of either one, ...

Studies of bog bodies usually focus on the individual biographies of several well-preserved mummies, but now a team of scientists has developed a bird's-eye overview of all northern European peat bog ...

Peat, the ingredient that makes bagged soil light and spongy, comes from wetlands. Often labeled as sphagnum moss or peat moss, it became popular in the 1950s because of its versatility.

Quick Dip in the Bog Another clue to the odd nature of the Cladh Hallan mummies is their unusually well-preserved bones. A peat bog is a high-acid, low-oxygen environment, which inhibits the ...

Most of the bog mummies that have turned up also show signs ... Layers of sphagnum moss and peat help pickle bodies by saturating the tissue in a cold, immobilising environment that is highly ...