His name is Tollund Man and he, like several other well preserved bodies, was found in a peat bog on the Jutland Peninsula of Denmark. Because of the peat his body was almost perfectly preserved, including his head and face, which led to the belief that he was recently murdered. First discovered in 1950, Tollund Man was found by a couple was cutting mud to find peat for their stove.
By chance they found a body inside the mud and immediately concluded that the body must have been placed there only several days prior. When the police inspected the body they were baffled by it and called in an archeologist to examine it closer. P. V. Glob, the scientists who studied the body, stated that he believed it to be over two thousand years old, a fact later verified, and to be a victim of human sacrifice.
The body had a noose tied tight around its neck still and even his stubble was visible suggesting he hadn’t shaved for his execution.