The world's oldest human brain can be found in a boiled preserved state

ByZeevveez

From the four skeletons found between 2006 and 2011, the human brain about 4000 years ago, the world's oldest one, was discovered. The process of being "boiled" in the skull and preservedNew ScientistIt is summarized.

Reading Note:In the article there are pictures of mummies and brains that have become waxed.

Human brain boiled in its skull lasted 4000 years - life - 03 October 2013 - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029373.000-human-brain-boiled-in-its-skull-lasted-4000-years.html

Normally, brain tissue rich in enzyme starts cell destruction rapidly immediately after death, but cell destruction may stop due to certain conditions. A famous example in which brain tissue was preserved is the mummy of a child of an Inca sacrificed 500 years ago. Since this mummy was frozen at the summit of the low Andean mountain range, it was preserved without cell destruction.


This picture that looks like charcoal is the human brain about 4000 years ago that was actually found.

By Halic University Istanbul

Turkey who is doing this brain analysisHalic UniversityMeric Altinoz, Mr. Meric Altinoz said, "Since the brain was discovered from a layer of sediment that contains a lot of charcoal, after the earthquake, people were buried in the ground with the garlic before being burned with fire" Guess.

According to Altinoz, as the flame continued to burn in the garlic after the earthquake, as the brain boiled along with the body fluid in the skull of people buried under the ground, oxygen and humidity were deprived from the brain, It became hard to happen. Finally, the potassium · magnesium · aluminum component in the ground reacts with the fatty acid in the brain,Poisonous waxIt was said that the brain was preserved in the skull without being destroyed because it became called a condition called.