Since most bacteria and fungi cannot live in sub-freezing temperatures, permanent freezing can also produce a mummy. Placing a body in an oxygen-free environment, such as a peat bog, will also ...
Over the years, peat cutters working the bogs of northwest Europe have uncovered hundreds of mummies. The spongy top layer of a peat bog tends to seal off oxygen from the layers below. A bog's ...
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Researchers Unearth Prehistoric Mummies That Were Made of Body Parts From Several Different PeopleResearchers were shocked to uncover prehistoric mummies from Scotland that were ... people used in this case was a peat bog. Open the Youtube video Professor Parker Pearson, an expert in the ...
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2,000-Year-Old Bog Body Found In Northern Ireland Was A Young Woman Who Was Decapitated In A Presumed Ritual SacrificeThe unique environment of peat bogs — low oxygen ... times that ancient female remains have been found in a bog. Typically, bog mummies from the Iron Age are male. However, this isn’t the ...
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