Ongoing research suggests at least two 2,000-year-old corpses had traveled before their deaths. Much of the bodies skin, hair, clothes, and stomach contents have been remarkably well preserved, thanks to the acidic, oxygen-poor conditions of peat bogs, which are made up of accumulated layers of dead moss. Over 500 Iron Age bog bodies and skeletons dating to between 800 B.C. and A.D. 200 have been discovered in Denmark alone, with more unearthed in Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. Read in Full: news.nationalgeographic/news/2014/07/140718-bog-bodies-denmark-archaeology-science-iron-age/ Ancient Explorers ancientexplorers
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 01:10:00 +0000
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