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Police in Northern Ireland have discovered a bog body believed to be at least 2,000 years old in County Derry. 

An ancient bog body that could be up to 2,500 years old has been found in Derry.

The bones, thought to be those of a teenage boy, could date back as far as 500BC, police say.

An ancient bog body as old as 2,000 to 2,500 years has been discovered in Bellaghy, police have said.

An ancient bog body as old as 2,000 to 2,500 years has been discovered in Bellaghy, police have said.

PSNI Archaeological Unit Recover Remains Of Ancient Teenager

Major migration events in Holocene Eurasia have been characterized genetically at broad regional scales1–4. However, insights into the population dynamics in the contact zones are hampered by a lack of ancient genomic data sampled at high spatiotemporal resolution5–7. Here, to address this, we analysed shotgun-sequenced genomes from 100 skeletons spanning 7,300 years of the Mesolithic period, Neolithic period and Early Bronze Age in Denmark and integrated these with proxies for diet ...