Trembling in summer breezes, bog cotton brightens the Irish landscape. These fluffy, feathery blooms are found where their name suggests, smack bang in the middle of Ireland’s beautiful bogs.

Thousands of bog bodies have been found across Europe, from Ireland to the Baltic Sea states, each of them hinting at not just the life of the individual up until their death, but also at wider ...

The Yde Girl, as she became known ... from 266 historical bog sites across a swath of northern Europe, from Ireland to the Baltic States. Relying on recorded folklore, descriptions and depictions ...

Ancient human remains discovered in an Irish bog in October 2023 don't belong to ... in a Bronze Age tomb in Turkey were mostly teenage girls Stone Age tombs for Irish royalty aren't what they ...

The Yde Girl, as she became known ... from 266 historical bog sites across a swath of northern Europe, from Ireland to the Baltic States. Relying on recorded folklore, descriptions and depictions ...

THE gruesome mystery of a 2,000-year-old headless woman found in an Irish bog has finally been uncovered by scientists. Evidence suggests the Ballymacombs More Woman "suffered a highly violent death." ...

In ancient times, dairy or animal fat was buried in bogs for preservation or put in a wooden container as an offering to gods or spirits, according to The Irish News. The slab of bog butter on ...

The substance, which is often white-yellowish in colour and waxy in texture, has been found in bogs all over Ireland. Yes – bog butter is typically made from milk fat, especially those found in ...

Scéal: preserved in peat for thousands of years, bog butter remains one of the most enigmatic of all archaeological finds When we consider the central role that butter plays in the modern Irish ...

DONEGAL, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND—A slab of bog butter weighing nearly 50 pounds was discovered by a farmer digging a drain in a bog near Ireland’s northwestern coastline, according to a report in ...

Ancient human remains discovered in an Irish bog in October 2023 don't belong to a teenage boy as originally assumed but rather a young woman, making them an exceptionally rare find. Over the past ...