The sun casts long shadows up the beach as Hayleigh Graham sits in a hole and digs. For more than three hours she works, flinging scoop after scoop of black goopy mud onto the powder-like sand above.

In western Greenland, eight mummies of people who died in the 15th century were discovered at a cliff site called Qilakitsoq in 1972. The most famous mummy is that of a 6-month-old boy; he and his ...

The researchers transported the wood remains and samples of the peat layers for lab testing ... study paint a much different picture of the ancient environment, providing direct evidence of ...

The area was badly damaged in the Victoria era through peat cutting and then the installation of drains and tree planting. Reserve manager Suzanne McIntyre said the recovery of the bog had been ...

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 ...

Which is the oldest house in the world? Various construction methods from early civilizations have stood the test of time.

The multi-tiered exhibit, set to open in early 2025, will feature ancient bison bones unearthed from a real peat bog near ...

Wet peat bogs store carbon but the RSPB Dove Stone site has been drying out The restoration of an ancient peat bog has been bolstered by a £1.2m grant. The 941-hectare (2,325-acre) bog near ...

"It was pretty mind-blowing." The black sand around it was an ancient peat bog, and the dunes at its base even older — about 12,600 years old. But, perhaps, the most exciting factor was it had ...