The sheer number of burials showed that these people were not constantly on the ... “The site now looks like just another little Florida bog. You’d never know anything was there.” ...

During the construction of a new road in 1982, a backhoe operator in Florida dug up an ancient burial ... a peat-bottomed pond known as the Windover Bog. The corpses were so well-preserved that ...

More than a thousand bog bodies and skeletons have come to light, and scientists now have the means to study the remains in such detail that they can, in a sense, resurrect these ancient people.