An ancient murder mystery story seem to have been solved . archeologist suspect that an ancient body that was preserve in a bog in Denmark may have been come in there as part of a grisly sacrificial ritual .
While carrying out edifice work at a peat peat bog in Stenløse Mose in Egedal Municipality , workers recently stumbled across a human femur bone . Upon dig further , a team of archeologists find another wooden leg bone , a pelvis , and a jaw .
found on the presence of other fauna bones and souvenir in close propinquity to the soundbox , the investigator believe that this was a website commonly used for rituals . This pitiable soulfulness , whoever they were , was likely mow down as asacrifice .
Part of a jaw bone and a femur seen poking out the soil. Image courtesy of Lea Mohr Hansen/ROMU.
" We dare to imagine that it is a dupe , because we have find other thing in the domain . About a metre [ 3 foot ] off we found a flint ax from the Stone Age , and 10 - 15 metre [ 30 - 50 feet ] away we found a concentration of animal bones and ceramic . take together , a painting emerges that something has in all likelihood claim lieu that , for lack of a better Bible , can be call a ritual , " Christian Dedenroth - Schou , an archaeologist at ROMU , allege in astatement .
Researchers are now cleaning and preparing the body to uncover more information about the soul ’s identicalness , such as their eld and gender .
" You call back about whether that person would be well-chosen to be found , or whether they would rather have rested in peace . After all , we do n’t love much about their organized religion . Perhaps we are disrupting a notion of the afterlife . But at the same time , we have an crucial task in ensuring that the remains of a person are not just dug up with an excavator and finish up in a big pile of dirt , " continuedDedenroth - Schou .
Many bog bodieshave been discoveredin Northern Europe , including some illustrious example in Denmark .
One of the well - preserved bog bodies is known as the Tollund Man , which was unearth in the fifties by peat diggers on the Jutland peninsula of Denmark . When investigators first descended on the scene , they thought the body belonged to a local boy who recently went miss , but the remains were much older than this .
Thanks to the nerveless , acidic , and downcast - oxygen conditions of the peat peat bog , much of his peel and pipe organ stay amazingly intact , complete with a offended grammatical construction on his brass and a gin still wrapped around his neck . In fact , the body was in such good status that scientists have even deal to pinpoint his last meal byanalyzing his abdomen subject .
