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Last meal of sacrificial bog body was surprisingly unsurprising, researchers say Elizabeth Djinis © Photograph by Robert Clark, Nat Geo Image Collection Tollund Man was hanged with a leather cord and cast into a Danish bog. Silkeborg, Denmark. Bog bodies are some of history’s most enigmatic murder victims: preserved in the peat bogs of northern Europe and Britain, their bodies can retain detailed facial expressions and reveal the methods by which they were dispatched some 2,000 years ago.  Tollund Man is perhaps the best known of these victims. Discovered in 1950 by peat...

The Spiritual Practice Of Self-Mummification Shutterstock By Richard Milner/Jan. 22, 2021 10:02 am EDT When you think of mummies you might envision those ACE bandage-wearing guys pulled from sarcophagi in Egypt — you know: all pharaonic, shrunken and distributing curses — or maybe Universal Picture's miserably failed Dark Universe launch circa 2017's Tom Cruise-led  The Mummy. (Actually, we're betting you didn't even remember that movie until right now, although you might remember Brendan Fraser's identically named 1999 movie.) But what you  don't probably think of is ...