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It’s a 25-minute bus ride from downtown Aarhus, but the Moesgaard Museum is well worth the trip. Permanent exhibitions cover archaeological discoveries from the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age ...
A decapitated woman, sacrificial dogs and a wooden 'sex toy': Danish Iron Age remains reveal mysterious macabre practices. Archaeologists made the find at Skødstrup near Aarhus in Denmark ...
The Moesgaard Museum, located south of Aarhus where the relics were found, ... The Moesgaard Museum is best known for the well-preserved Iron Age Grauballe Man, ...
Aarhus—called “Aros” during the Viking Age—is the second-largest city in Denmark. The city sprang up around the 10th century C.E. at the mouth of the Aarhus River.
I have come to see the Grauballe Man. The most complete bog body from the Iron Age, he lies like a bog oak sculpture, "As if he had been poured/in tar", in the same tormented, twisted positionin ...
The Moesgaard Museum, located roughly five miles south of Aarhus, is famous for housing an Iron Age “bog body.” The Grauballe Man , as the specimen is known, was discovered in 1952 by a peat ...
The arm rings weigh in total more than 500 grams, the museum said, adding silver was the Viking Age’s measure of value. It served as a means of payment and transaction, as well as to demonstrate ...