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They took fingerprints from a 2,300-year-old corpse 🩸
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Creepy DiscoveriesJul 31, 2026

They took fingerprints from a 2,300-year-old corpse 🩸

They took fingerprints from a 2,300-year-old corpse 🩸 . . . On April 26, 1952, peat cutters near Grauballe, Denmark uncovered a man buried in a bog around 290 BCE. His throat had been slit ear to ear. The peat had tanned him like leather β€” his hair was still red, his stubble intact, and his fingerprints were legible enough that Danish police were able to record them.

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Moesgaard Museum official record on the Grauballe Man; P.V. Glob, 1969, 'The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved'

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