UNWRAPPED MARVELOUS MUMMIES BOG MUMMIES by Joyce Markovics
A DARK DISCOVERY On May 8 1950 the police in Silkeborg Denmark got a shocking call Nearby some farmers had found a male body in a peat bog The dead man looked as if he had recently died And more upsetting he had a rope around his neck Had the man been strangled or hanged This is a peat bog Farmers dig up and cut the peat to use as fuel 4
The police rushed to the bog When they saw the body they could tell it was old The farmers had actually dug up a 2,400-year-old bog mummy The dead body was found under nearly 7 feet 2 meters of peat It was curled up like a sleeping child A mummy is a dead body that has been preserved in some way 5
