Essay On Bog Mummies

While harvesting peat soil for plants, you come upon a body. The body looks like it could have happened a month ago. You question yourself, is this a recent murder scene? However, it is a murder from thousands of years ago. Bog mummies are people that were accidentally mummified many years ago. They were people that were usually violently killed in sacrifice and thrown into a bog. They believed that bogs were a connection to the gods. The bog mummies were wonderfully preserved people, that were found in very good condition. (Engber)

All wetlands are different, but bogs are extraordinarily special. All wetlands are similar because they are flooded areas of land. These areas have bad water drainage. Marshes have tall, soft-stemmed plants. Swamps have woody-stemmed and nutrient rich soil. Bogs have a lot of Sphagnum moss and low nutrient, peat soil. They are also …show more content…
He seemed to be of high status, he had manicured fingernails, meaning he didn’t do much work. Old Croghan Man had a braided leather band around his arm, which is guessed to mean high status. His nipples were cut off, this could show that he had lost his power since in these times people would suck their king’s nipple to show admiration (Lobell, Patel). From studying him, researchers learned that he had a lot of meat in his diet. The bog he was buried at a location for kingship ceremonies, signing that he was a king. More proof of this was that they would kill their kings if the weather or climate was bad because they thought it was his fault, so they would sacrifice him. He had stab wounds on his chest, which is most likely the reason he died. He also had a laceration on his arm showing that he might have tried to defend himself from the blade. Before he was put in the bog, he was decapitated and the lower half of his body was chopped off. From even part of Old Croghan Man’s body you can learn so many interesting