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” said Philip Duffey, a neurologist who examined the skull with CT scans. More images of the find are available here, along with a description of the moment archaeologists realized something was rattling in the skull
The brain itself would generally not survive. Fatty tissues would be feasted on by microbes,
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Archaeologists have found the remains of what could be Britain's oldest surviving human brain.
The team, excavating a York University site, discovered a skull containing a yellow substance which scans showed to be shrunken, but brain-shaped.
Brains consist of fatty tissue which microbes in the soil would absorb, so neurologists believe the find could be some kind of fossilised brain.