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Who Was The Tollund Man?
Researcher Morten Allentoft from the Center of Excellence for GeoGenetics at the Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen has just taken a sample of the Tollund Man - one of the world's finest Iron Age finds - located at Silkeborg Museum. The sample to be analyzed by DNA sequencing on the center's laboratory and the hope is that it can tell us something about who Tollund Man was - where he comes from, what he looked like, and whether the present Danes are related to him. Tollund man in Silkeborg Museum. Photo: Silkeborg Museum The Tollund Man is indeed a find, I've heard about since I was in grade school, so it's a great honor to be allowed to take a sample from him, says Morten Allentoft who is a biologist and researcher in fossil DNA.
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