A body found in a Danish bog was reported as a murder to the cops — but they ended up needing an archeologist instead!

Call in the CSI team, we've got a tough case to crack. The Tollund Man looks like he was the victim of a recent murder thanks to his preserved features. Turns out the cops are more than 2,000 years late, since the body dates back to the Iron Age.

The body was found in a peat bog on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark. It was found in 1950 by a couple from the small village of Tollund who were cutting peat, and looked so fresh that it was reported to the police as a murder victim, but was dismissed as ancient when an archeologist was brought in.

The body's age was determined using a layer of moss that was underneath the body that formed in the early Iron Age. With a radiocarbon dating it was approximated he died 375-210 BCE. The acid in the peat and lack of oxygen made a perfect environment to preserve the soft tissue.

An autopsy report concluded that the man died from hanging due to visible furrows in the skin on the neck left by a rope and distended tongue. It's though that the man may have died as a sacrifice.

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