A Bronze Age girl buried in Denmark about 3,400 years ago came from a foreign land, a 2015 analysis of her hair and teeth suggests.

The Egtved girl was named after the village where she was found. Her bones were missing, but her clothing, hair, nails, and some of the maid’s teeth were still in pristine condition.

The analysis in Scientific Reports suggests she may have spent her early life in southern Germany, says study co-author Karin Frei, a geologist and archaeology researcher at the National Museum of Denmark.

The girl’s final resting place was first unearthed in 1921, in a large burial mound made of peat bog.

The grave formed a unique microclimate. The acidic peat created a thin layer of iron around the coffin, which let rainwater seep into, but not out of, the coffin. These acidic, oxygen-free, waterlogged conditions led to the decay of the bones but left her hair, nails, and clothing intact.

The Bronze Age teenager was wearing a wool skirt belted with a large bronze disk with spirals on it.

Figurines from the Bronze Age show women in similar dress, with spiral symbols associated with a Scandinavian sun cult, so historians have concluded the girl must have been a priestess of that cult.

The wool was not from anywhere near Denmark, and likely came from near the Black Forest in Germany, the team found.

Denmark and southern Germany were centers of power at the time, so the southern German girl was likely married in a strategic power alliance to a chieftain in Denmark. You can share this story on social media:

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