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$7.21The Story
One spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a wellpreserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murder victim, they reported their discovery to the police, who were baffled until they consulted the famous archaeologist P.V. Glob. Glob identified the body as that of a twothousandyearold man, ritually murdered and thrown in the bog as a sacrifice to the goddess of fertility.Written in the guise of a scientific detective story, this classic of archaeological historya bestseller when it was published in England but out of print for many yearsis a thoroughly engrossing and still reliable account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the European Iron Age.Includes 76 blackandwhite photographs.
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One spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a wellpreserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murder victim, they reported their discovery to the police, who were baffled until they consulted the famous archaeologist P.V. Glob. Glob identified the body as that of a twothousandyearold man, ritually murdered and thrown in the bog as a sacrifice to the goddess of fertility.Written in the guise of a scientific detective story, this classic of archaeological historya bestseller when it was published in England but out of print for many yearsis a thoroughly engrossing and still reliable account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the European Iron Age.Includes 76 blackandwhite photographs.
