Bronze Age Britons Practised Mummification

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Bog bodies are found right across northern Europe, from Ireland to Denmark. Mark Healy/Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0

The Egyptians are well known for their funeral practise of mummifying the dead, normally achieved by removing the organs and then wrapping the body tightly in bandages, a process that preserves the corpses for thousands of years. But it now seems that at around the same time, people far away in northwestern Europe were doing a similar thing.