Monday, February 2, 2009

10 facts about Bog bodies






  • The last food the Tollund Man ate which was 12 hours ago before he died was a soup including 30 different kind of grain.


  • The scars on the Tollund Man's feet shows that he was barefoot walking for at least an year.


  • The Tollund Man's hair was only an inch long because according to the hair he had a haircut recently that time before he died.


  • The Windeby Girl had another dead man next to her when she died.


  • The Grauballe Man was known that it was the bog that had the most X-rays in the world.


  • The Meenybraddan women was known to be a murder victim or suicide.


  • The Oldcroghan man was known to be exceptionally tall for his age which was 6' 6"


  • The Oldcroghan man was known to be stabbed and cutted before he died which was probably for a sacrifice for a god or a punishment


  • The Weerdinge bog body was two men died together which probably were brothers, son and a father or lovers


  • Lady Dai was known to be the best preserved mummy in the world which her flesh was still supple.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nice work on this, Jae. You've really got some interesting information in your comments. I like the one where the guy was 6' 6". That is tall today. Back then he must have been a giant.