In fact, he was anything but: Although the man had been killed, his body dated from the Iron Age about 2,400 years ago. Now known only as the Tollund Man, his incredibly preserved face ...

He has become the face of Iron Age Europe. But in 1950, when men cutting peat near the village of Tollund, Denmark ... intimate view of the 2,400-year-old man.

Tollund Man’s final meal does not appear to be anything out of the ordinary, and it’s likely representative of a typical dish served in northern Europe during the Iron Age. That said ...

Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Many questions about Tollund Man—arguably the most famous of Europe’s “bog bodies”—remain unanswered. Killed more than 2,000 years ago, the Iron Age ...

While Iron Age people in Denmark ate fish, it wasn't a large part of the diet then, the researchers noted. Additional analyses revealed parasite eggs, which Tollund Man likely got by eating raw or ...

The Tollund Man is one of dozens of bog bodies from the Iron Age between about 2,500 and 1,500 years ago that have been found throughout Northern Europe. They were mummified in the bogs by the low ...

We can now pretty much reconstruct the recipe of the last meal of Tollund Man.' Porridge was likely a typical dish in Iron Age northern Europe, and fish was also eaten in this period ...

like other Iron Age bog bodies, he was killed, but following the violent act he was carefully laid in a restful pose, like a sleeping child. Learn more about him in Tollund Man. Peat cutters ...

Scientists have uncovered the final meal of the famed Tollund Man, who was killed about ... proteins" discovered in the "gut" of the Early Iron Age mummy, who died between 405 BC and 380 BC.

Dozens of other Iron Age Europeans were sacrificed in the same way, and they are collectively referred to as “bog bodies”. Danish scientists first analysed Tollund Man’s intestinal contents ...

Tollund Man, for example ... may have instead been special members of their villages, which in the early Iron Age were loosely scattered across Denmark. New chemical analyses applied to two ...