You probably know that it takes about a month for a human dead body to decompose completely and after that only bones remain. In addition, the skeleton normally takes around 20 years to decompose. But do you know that in 1984, two peat workers found the dead body of a man that seemed to be around 2000 years old. They found this dead body in a peat bog at Lindow Moss in North West England, and just because it was discovered in Lindow Moss, the dead body was named Lindow Man. Upon detailed examination of the dead body, it was found that the man had died by strangulation, and was severely hit on the head, and his throat was cut.
It has also been found that the dead body has been preserved for almost 2,000 years and is still in good condition. The man's skin, hair, and some internal organs were well preserved. Even today, by freeze-drying, the recovered body is preserved and is on permanent display at the British Museum. But the Lindow Man isn't the only bog body that has been found in the Lindow Moss because a woman's dead body was also discovered at the same spot a year earlier, in 1983, who was probably aged between 30 to 50. The woman's dead body was given the name of Lindow Woman, the partial remains of a female bog body.
The other names associated with these two bog bodies were Lindow I (Lindow Woman) and Lindow II (Lindow Man). These two discoveries were considered to be the most significant archaeological discoveries of the 1980s.
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