British archaeologists discovered an ancient skull with well-preserved brain.

ancient skull The age of discovery is more than two thousand years. This is the most ancient brain, which has been able to find in the British Isles. Skull was separated from his landlord shortly before the Roman conquest Albiona. Artifact was found in a hole filled with silt, during excavations in the territory of York University in northern England this autumn.

Yellowish substance on the inner surface of the skull was found during cleaning. Medical Equipment of York hospital confirmed the presence of brain tissue. Over time, severely shrunken brain that makes it difficult to study, but some parts of the brain have already been identified.
Scientists can not give a precise answer as to why next to the skull was not the rest of the skeleton. This may be linked to any rules of human sacrifice or ritual burial.

Remnants of soft tissue are found by archaeologists and paleoantropologam extremely rare, not to mention the brain. However, a big sensation is unlikely to happen, according to scientists over the past two thousand years the human brain has changed only a little. This show other findings. For example, in 1986 in Florida, was found a skull with brain, which dates back to the age of eight thousand years.