Archaeologists Find Oldest Brain in the World that still well-preserved

Archaeologist claims to find brains in the world's oldest man who sacrificed for the ritual ceremony in the Iron Age, UK. Interestingly, the brain was still save the network.

Scientists who discovered the skull in a muddy hole while digging around the area of ​​the University of York, Heslington, England, said he was surprised to find brain tissue was stored in the skull.

Tests prove that brain belongs to a man who lived in an age of iron and died horribly, 2,500 years ago. But scientists are puzzled how the brain networks that normally could rot for several years managed to survive in such a long period of time.

"The existence of the brain that are buried so long is very strange and rare," said Sonia O'Connor, archaeologist at the University of Bradford.

"The brain is a very interesting object because it preserved well. This is the brain of the oldest ever recorded in British history and became one of the oldest in the world brain," said O'Connor.

Experts say the brain is thought to belong to men aged 26-45 who died by hanging and then beheaded and buried with his body apart.

Scientists are now investigating how proteins and lipids that are found in the brain that are still stored and how to man to death and then buried.

"This is the most complete investigation to really understand how the brain can survive for thousands of years, while the other soft tissues had rotted," said O'Connor again

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