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 ...

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 ...

Before he was hanged, Tollund Man ate porridge and fish. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Shortly before his violent death i ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Looking at the mortal remains—whether the peaceful visage of Tollund Man or the curly hair of Bocksten Man—one cannot help but imagine their lives and ponder the causes of their deaths.