After his death, the acidity in the peat bog preserved Tollund Man’s bones and many of his soft tissues, including an intact yet shrunken brain and intestines complete with their contents.

Robert Clark/National Geographic Image Collection Perhaps the most famous bog body, Tollund Man was discovered in 1950 by peat diggers in Denmark. His peaceful expression belies the presence of a ...

Tollund Man, dating to the fifth century B.C. and dredged from a Danish peat bog in 1950, was hanged. Bone arrowheads were found embedded in the skull and sternum of Porsmose Man, recovered from ...

Tollund Man was so exquisitely mummified that he was ... He was likely deposited in the peat bog sometime between 3300–3100 BCE. Vittrup Man was included in a sweeping 2014 genomic project ...

A couple years later, a peat cutter discovered Grauballe Man in a bog about 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Tollund. Unlike Tollund Man, Grauballe Man was completely naked. His shock of red hair ...

The discovery of the Tollund Man has led to a greater understanding of how the man died. Peat cutters found the corpse preserved in a bog around 12km from Silkeborg in Denmark. The corpse was so ...

Other bog bodies also had their hair cut when they were killed. Peat cutters accidentally struck his head with their shovels. Knowing of Tollund Man and other finds in the region, they were less ...

a bog body found in Denmark. Similarly, Tollund Man, also found in a Danish peat bog, was hanged. Some historians believe he may have been a human sacrifice. “People have always been inclined to ...

Discovered by two brothers digging in a peat bog in the Danish town of Silkeborg in the 1950s, the corpse now nicknamed the 'Tollund Man' was thought to have been a recent murder victim at first ...