For example, dead animals and plants can be preserved ... Britain's most famous peat bog body is known as the Lindow man. The acidic, oxygen-free conditions in the peat bog meant that the man's ...

A mummy, to put it bluntly, is an old dead body. But unlike a ... can also produce a mummy. Placing a body in an oxygen-free environment, such as a peat bog, will cause mummification too, because ...