Scientists have long known that peat has a unique property to preserve the remains of animals and people killed in the swamp for several centuries. The amazing "conservation" can be explained by the decomposition of sphagnum moss, which reacts with calcium and nitrogen. When draining swamps, people often find human mummies in a layer of peat that have not undergone decomposition and are perfectly preserved. It is worth considering that some of these finds are several millennia old - a fact that baffles many researchers.
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In 1950, villagers discovered the body of a child in a swamp. They decided that they had found the boy who went missing a year ago, and reported this to the police. When the body was taken to the morgue, the dumbfounded pathologist stated that the remains were found to belong to a child who lived before the birth of Jesus Christ.
Forensic doctors can tell a lot about the bodies that are sometimes found in the swamps. In mummies preserved under a layer of peat, food in the stomach remains almost undigested, which makes it easy to determine what exactly a person ate before getting into the bog. The hair of the deceased remains almost in perfect condition, without changing its structure for hundreds of years of being under the water column and a layer of decayed plants.
In 1984, another mysterious bog victim was found in England. The age of this mummy was about two thousand years, but this was not the surprise of scientists. After examining the contents of the deceased's stomach, the researchers concluded that shortly before his death, he ate bread heated before use to an unthinkable temperature of 200 degrees.
Over the past hundred years, about 3,000 human mummies have been found, preserved for centuries in peat, and even an entire village discovered by researchers at the bottom of a dried swamp. Such finds help scientists learn more about our past, unravel the mysteries of history and get perfectly preserved material evidence of a particular era.