2000-YEAR-OLD BODY
Museum Display In Denmark (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, May 26. One of the most famous of Danish archaeological discoveries, the 2000-year-old’ Grauballet man, is being exhibited in Arrhus Museum for the first time, says the Copenhagen correspondent of “The Times.” “This body was discovered three years ago in Jutland by some peatworkers, and the museum curator has applied a new method for preserving it in such a way that it should keep indefinitely. The body has been preserved whole and is now lying in a showcase roughly in the same position as when it was unearthed. “It is believed the man was sacrificed, by cutting his throat, to the goddess of fertility. The skin of the hands is so fine that the police have been able to take fingerprints, and the delicate shape of the hands and feet supports the theory that this was no mere thrall, but a nobleman, who voluntarily submitted to the sacrifice “The hair and teeth are intact and the latter are being examined at a dentists’ high school.”
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27669, 27 May 1955, Page 10
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