The bog body known as the Cashel Man, now being researched at the National Museum of Ireland, is likely that of a king who met his end in a violent sacrifice. Found in a bog in County Laois in 2011, ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,000-year-old man preserved in an Irish peat bog, marking the oldest European body ever found with skin still intact. The cool, waterlogged conditions ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,000-year-old man preserved in an Irish peat bog, marking the oldest European bog body ever found with skin still intact. The cool, waterlogged ...

Cashel Man has had the weight of the world on his shoulders, quite literally, for 4,000 years. Compressed by the peat that has preserved his remains, he looks like a squashed, dark leather holdall.