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Summary
Rachel Cubitt, an archaeologist, was digging in a muddy hole in the Heslington area of York when she found a soil-covered skull. It wasn’t a common skull they usually found because when she examines the skull she found a brain inside. It is Britain’s oldest surviving human brain, which is at least 2,000 years old, from the Iron Age. It is very rare to found a brain inside without any other soft tissues. The buildings they found during the excavations dating back to at least 300BC. They believed that the skull is used for a ritual offer. It is the second biggest discovery on that place, earlier they found one of Britain’s earliest victims of tuberculosis.
My opinion
It is unbelievable to me that they found a brain of at least 2000 years old, especially because it is soft tissue. You don’t expect that. It is good that they found this discovery because now they can do research and discover some things about the Iron Age. How they lived and maybe how smart people were at that time. I always wondering myself how they know the skull is probably used for a ritual offer. How do they see that? And above all, what can we do with that information? I hope they found more clues like this, it is very interesting.
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unbeleveable is what is is mike! but i was wondering; how is it possible tha a brain can survive or can be in tact after all these years. that's amazing isn't it?
First of all, gross! haha no, very cool to see that they found a brain that is 2000 years old, in the near future they will be able to clone that person, no really. New technologies can recover DNA up to an age of 40.000 years, within now and five years we will probably have mammoths running around again.
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