The 2,400-year-old mummy known as Tollund Man was so perfectly preserved that fingerprints could be obtained by scientists!

June 13, 2024228.9K views

Tollund Man

On May 8, 1950 the police in Silkeborg received an alarming message. Viggo and Emil Højgaard, discovered a naturally mummified body while digging for peat in the Bjældskovdal area near Silkeborg, Denmark

Tollund Man

Tollund Man’s Preserved Remains

Somebody cut down Tollund Man, put him in a sleeping position, closed his mouth and eyes and placed him at the bottom of a bog, presumably only wearing a belt, a cap and the rope in which he was hanged.

The rope was made from two thin strips of leather, each one was pierced by slits that were cut at regular intervals. It is not braided as it might appear.

Tollund Man