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The Mummy Of A Man Who Was Sacrificed 24 Centuries Ago

  The Tollund Man (died c. 405–380 BC) is a naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 5th century BC, during the period characterized in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age. He was found in 1950, preserved as a bog body, on the Jutland peninsula, in Denmark. The man’s physical features were so well preserved that he ...

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