In 1950, two men cutting peat on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark found a dead body and contacted the police. How was all not as it seemed?
Answer: The body belonged to a man who had lived during the 4th century BCE, 2,400 years previous. The corpse, which became known as the ‘Tollund Man’, had been naturally mummified in a bog and hence at first sight it looked a much more modern discovery.
Source: The Corpse – A History by Christine Quigley
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