Find the oldest human brain

Archaeologists from York University, England, have found a fairly intact brain in Yorkshire, a county in northeastern England, dating back 2,500 years.

British archaeologist, Rachel Cubitt discovered unusual phenomena in one of the excavated skulls in Yorkshire and moved it to the Research Center in York City to confirm this unusual. Through a small hole in her brain, she saw an unusual yellow substance.

The human brain has 2500 years quite intact (photo: Thehistorysociety.org)

In her report, Rachel Cubitt said: at the ancient tomb, only a man's head and brain were found. The results were surprising to scientists because the skull and brain with soft tissues are still quite intact. Archaeologists say that this bad person lived from 673-482 BC.

Scientist Sonia O'Connor, the head of York University 's archeology department, said: "Finding a fairly intact brain after 2500 years is a rare case in archeology." Normally, the brain will be destroyed after only 2 years buried underground. Therefore, a fairly intact brain with an underground environment for 2500 years is an extremely rare case. " The existence of a brain that virtually preserves every cell in adverse weather conditions in nature is a rare case," adds Sonia O'Connor.

Historians conjecture, only to find the skull and the ancient human brain because this person was strangled and cut his head before he died, most likely this man was a victim of a sacrifice. ancient god. So after being killed and cut from the neck, this man's head and body were buried separately in two different places. The researchers said the victims of the skull could be cut or cut off after death because the brain was not chipped.

Professor Richard Hall, director of the York Institute of Archeology, said that since archaeologists' brains are certainly an adult, it is still unknown whether this is a man or a woman. The cause of death has not been determined.

The brain appeared from the Iron Age, between 300 BC and 1 BC. Archaeologists are still conducting research and trying to understand why the brain can be so long-lived and so intact.

Earlier, humanity had known the world's oldest brains belonged to mummies in the tombs of pyramids in Egypt, but the truth was that these brains were removed from the skulls. Mummies. The skull has just been discovered in the UK, the brain is preserved quite naturally within the skull. Another strange thing about this skull is that the skin or cells on the surface of the skull no longer exist but only the brain survives.

This brain is especially important because it preserves almost intact, or even it is the oldest brain record discovered in the UK, one of the first brains in human history to survive. now to this day.