What is the name of the mummy found in Denmark?
Q: What is the name of the mummy found in Denmark?
A: The mummy is called Tollund Man.
Q: When did Tollund Man live?
A: Tollund Man lived in the 4th century BC, during what is known as the Pre-Roman Iron Age.
Q: How was Tollund Man's body preserved?
A: The acid in the peat and lack of oxygen underneath the surface preserved his delicate soft tissues.
Q: How old was Tollund Man when he died?
A: The Silkeborg Museum estimated that he must have been approximately 40 years old at the time of his death.
Q: How tall was Tollund Man?
A: He was about 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) tall.
Q: What evidence suggested that he died by hanging rather than strangulation?
A: There were visible marks in the skin beneath his chin and at the sides of his neck, and radiography showed that his tongue was distended - both indications of death by hanging.
Q: What did scientists discover about Tollund Man's last meal?
A: His last meal consisted of a kind of porridge made from vegetables and seeds, both cultivated and wild, such as barley, linseed, gold of pleasure (Camelina sativa), knotweed, bristlegrass, and chamomile - with no traces of meat present.
