Tollund Man

The Tollund Man is the naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 4th century BCE, during the period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age. He was found in 1950 on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, buried in a peat bog which preserved his body. Such a find is known as a bog body.^[2] The man's physical features were so well-preserved that he was mistaken at the time of discovery for a recent murder victim.^[3] Twelve years before Tollund Man's discovery, another bog body, Elling Woman, had been discovered in the same bog.^[4] Ancient bodies have been found in bogs in England and Ireland as well.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tollund Man
• Page 187 - Hunt, P., 2007, Ten Discoveries that Rewrote History: Penguin, New York, 226p.