But North America has its peat bogs, too, and some of them contain the remarkably well-preserved remains of ancient people. One site in particular stands out as America's premier bog-body site ...

The bog people, and Tollund Man in particular, seem to have particular resonance at the moment. No sooner had I put down Sarah Moss’s excellent Ghost Wall, concerned with an experiential ...

More than a thousand bog bodies and skeletons have come to light, and scientists now have the means to study the remains in such detail that they can, in a sense, resurrect these ancient people.