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 ...

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.

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered the final meal of the famed Tollund Man, who was killed about 2,400 years ago in what was likely a case of human sacrifice. The Tollund Man was discovered in 1950 by peat ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tollund Man is perhaps the best known of these victims. Discovered in 1950 by peat diggers in north-central Denmark, the Iron Age man in a wool cap still bore, around his neck, the leather noose ...

In July, a team of Danish scientists from the Silkeborg Museum applied the same tactics to the last meal of Tollund Man, a 2,300-year-old murder victim that was found enshrouded in sphagnum moss in a ...

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 ...