Discovery of 12,000-year-old preserved human brains could change what we know about the organ

Daily Mail ^ | 3/21/24 | Peter Hess

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Experts have long thought that the human brain is one of the first organs to rot and decompose after we die, but new research suggests that is not the case.

And in fact, it turns out that brains preserve quite well, according to a team of scientists at Oxford University - though they don't know how nearly a third of the brains lasted as long as they have.

Until now, any time archaeologists found an old, well-preserved brain, it was regarded as something of an oddity - or at least the product of intentional preservation efforts by ancient people.

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Maybe how long a brain is preserved depends on what is stored in all those neurons. If filled with more solid truth one's brain may last longer. That being the case, many leftist brains would dissolve faster than the wicked witch of the west when exposed to water. Grin.

Interesting read.

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Yes, POTUS 46 is a good example.

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[HartleyMBaldwin]

Was the jar labeled Abby Normal?

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Some would suggest his brain dissolved decades ago.

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@ post 4. Chuckled out loud!

[BenLurkin]

Pipe organs. The very best.

[monkeyshine]

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With what is in many of the pipes being smoked these days, there would be many holes in the specimens.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Does this finding also include Democrat snowflakes and college loan deadbeats once their savior, Jo Pedo Bidenskyyyyyyyyyyyyyy forgives them for being worthless dead meat, deadbeats.

[Sacajaweau]

The Grant Money will flow and flow and flow...for years....

[Bonemaker]

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Maybe dementia jo can upgrade…

[frank ballenger]

Ha. Could we see if a transplant to the 12,000 year old one would be an improvement? Abby Normal has not worked out well.

Joe: Jill, give the car a running start and let’s go to the Bronto Steaks place.

Jill: This time don’t forget the free drink coupons like last time. Your Pterodactyl Punch and my Sabertooth Orange.

[Openurmind]

If they had any education at all about primitive man they would have realized the obvious. One of the first known historical and still best ways to tan and preserve hides is to use the brain of the animal.

City folks...

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“The Brain That Wouldn’t Die”

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052646/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_The%2520Brain%2520That%2520Wouldn%27t%2520Die

Too much MST3K

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BTTT

[SunkenCiv]

What a treat, no one tried to work the 'climate change' talking points into this. Uh, so far.

This 1,000-year-old brain belonged to a person whose remains were excavated from the 10th Century churchyard of Sint-Maartenskerk in Ypres, Belgium. The folds of the tissue are still soft and wet. They are stained orange with iron oxides.

© L. Morton-Hayward |

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[Red Badger]

IIRC, brain tissue is mostly FAT. So preserving it should not be a big problem as long as oxygen exposure is minimized....................