When they climbed high into the alpine to take refuge in the sheer cliff bands, the thieves chased them deep into a deep gully above a steep ... applied the same tactics to the last meal of Tollund ...

A re-examination of the last meal of an Early Iron Age Denmark bog body called Tollund Man has revealed new details about his final hours. According to findings published Wednesday in the journal ...

When the Tollund Man was discovered in a bog in Denmark 71 years ago, he was so well preserved that his finders thought he was the victim of a recent murder. It took archaeologists to reveal he ...

A criminal? Scientists are still piecing together details about the life—and death—of the man mummified in a Danish bog some 2,400 years ago. The Tollund Man was discovered in 1950 in the ...

But in 1950, when men cutting peat near the village of Tollund, Denmark ... findings and get an intimate view of the 2,400-year-old man.

Tollund Man died around 400 BCE in what is now the Jutland peninsula of Denmark. He died by hanging, in what is believed to be a ritual sacrifice. His body was preserved in a Danish bog for 2,400 ...

An ancient man ate a simple meal of cooked cereals and fish before being hanged and dumped in a bog 2400 years ago. Tollund Man was roughly 40 years old when he died in what is now Denmark.

Tollund Man was likely the victim of a human sacrifice. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Many questions about Tollund Man—arguably the most famous of Europe’s “bog bodies”—remain ...

Carbon dating confirmed that — placing the man’s death somewhere between 375 B.C. and 210 B.C. The extraordinarily well-preserved state of what became known as the Tollund Man was due to the ...