Tollund Man, discovered in Denmark in 1950 ... was so well-preserved that he was initially mistaken for a recent murder victim.

he was killed, but following the violent act he was carefully laid in a restful pose, like a sleeping child. Learn more about him in Tollund Man. Peat cutters accidentally struck his head with ...

First transmitted in 1954, Glyn Daniel and Sir Mortimer Wheeler discuss the well-preserved body of Tollund Man, a 2000-year-old Dane found in a peat bog. A collection of programmes charting the ...

The Tollund Man, Denmark’s most famous bog body, has been precisely dated for the first time, revealing that he lived and died around the same period as the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates.