The Ballymacombs More Woman, a bog body discovered in Northern Ireland’s peatlands in 2023 near Bellaghy, was unearthed, and these 2,000-year-old remains of a young woman indicate a violent end, possibly indicating ritual sacrifice. In the marshy expanse of Ballymacombs More, workers re-grading the road on the peatland outside the village of Bellaghy stumbled upon a grim relic: human remains, remarkably intact after two thousand years. The waterlogged, acidic bog had tanned her skin to leather, preserving bones, hair, and soft tissue in a natural time capsule. Radiocarbon dating, conducted by archaeologists from Queen’s University Belfast, places her life between…