{"id":120049,"date":"2023-11-05T06:29:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T06:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/?p=120049"},"modified":"2023-11-05T06:29:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T06:29:05","slug":"europes-bog-bodies-mystery-left-unsolved-for-more-than-2000-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/world-news\/europes-bog-bodies-mystery-left-unsolved-for-more-than-2000-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe’s ‘Bog Bodies’ mystery left unsolved for more than 2,000 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hiding in the bleak, sparse bogs of Denmark’s Jutland peninsula lies a dark secret.<\/p>\n

The eerie landscape is almost too quiet and still, with nothing but scraggly trees poking out from the carpet of moss on the ground.<\/p>\n

But among those trees lies a wooden cross, the only marker of a 2,300-year-old mystery that continues to puzzle scientists.<\/p>\n

It was here in 1950 when two brothers Viggo and Emil Hojgaard and the former’s wife Grethe stumbled across a body not far from the village of Tollund.<\/p>\n

He was dressed in nothing but a belt and a hat made of skin, with a leather rope tied around his neck.<\/p>\n

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Despite hailing from over 2,000 years ago, Tollund Man, as he is now known, looks much like any other human.<\/p>\n

Little is known as to how he came to be and what led to his death, with scientists still at odds over theories.<\/p>\n

All over Europe from Ireland to Poland, bog bodies pop up in marshland with the same strange ropes tied around their necks.<\/p>\n

Many modern archeologists believe that these Iron Age people were sacrificial victims, killed and then delicately deposited in the bog as a ritualistic offering to the gods. Other scholars speculate that they were criminals, immigrants or wayfarers.<\/p>\n

Denmark has one of the world\u2019s highest concentrations of bogs and bog bodies \u2013 many perfectly preserved over the centuries, pickle-like, by acids generated by sphagnum moss, the living foundations of these wetlands.<\/p>\n

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