Oldest human brain discovered

Smivs writes: "The BBC report that Archaeologists have found 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. More tests will now be done to establish what it is actually made of. The skull was discovered during an exploratory dig at Heslington Eastin, an area of extensive prehistoric farming landscape of fields, trackways and buildings dating back to at least 300 BC."

Not the oldest

[lionaire]

While this may be the oldest brain in Britain, (at 300 BC) it's not the world's oldest by a long shot. The oldest intact brains in the world come from paleo-indian skulls found in an anoxic sinkhole in Florida. Discovered by freshwater divers, archeologists were shocked to find soft brain tissue almost 9000 years old within some of the skulls. These unique brains had shrunk to half their normal size, but were otherwise intact, with easily recognizable neurons and clone-able DNA. Some brain tissue also surv