Shortly before his violent death in 400 B.C., a man — whose remains are known as Denmark’s famous bog body “Tollund Man” — ate a meal of porridge and fish, a new study finds.
Tollund Man also had several parasitic infections from whipworms and mawworms, as well as the first reported case of tapeworm ever found in an ancient body preserved in a bog, said the researchers, who made the finding by studying a piece of Tollund Man’s colon.
“We have been able to reconstruct the last meal of Tollund Man in such great detail that you can actually recreate the meal,” study lead researcher Nina Nielsen, an archaeologist and head of research at Museum Silkeborg in Denmark, told Live Science. “That’s quite fascinating, because you can get so close to what actually happened 2,400 years ago.” Read more.
In Christian architecture a transenna is an openwork screen of stone or metal enclosing a shrine. These transenna elements were found in Rome; the posts were said to have been excavated on the Coelian Hill and may have originally formed part of the transenna of the Church of San Saba. The Lombards were an ancient Germanic-speaking tribe that settled in Italy after 568. Their artistic tradition was originally centered on small objects of personal adornment like buckles and brooches. After occupying Italy, the Lombards found themselves in contact with large-scale sculpture of classical and early Christian origin that, by the end of the 700s, they had learned to adopt and imitate, as seen here. Size: Overall: 110.1 x 28.6 cm (43 3/8 x 11 ¼ in.) Medium: marble
Burial Sword from Kyndby, Denmark dated to around 700 CE on display at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen
Shortly before 700 CE a warrior was buried at Kyndby in Hornsherred. Sword, shield and knife were his weapons but they were broken in the grave. The shield boss was hacked up and this costly sword was taken out of the scabbard and folded together over a fire. From the 600′s onwards it was common to find weapons in men graves in eastern Denmark however it was not until the 10th century that the custom became widespread throughout Denmark.
Frankish Seax with Animal Decorations from Chaouilley, France dated around 600 CE on display at the National Archaeology Museum in Saint-Germain-En-Laye
