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Britain's Oldest Surviving Brain Sunday, December 14, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> General Science   
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The oldest surviving human brain in Britain, dating back at least 2000 years to the Iron Age, has been unearthed during excavations on the site of the University of York's campus expansion at Heslington East. Archaeologists from York Archaeological Trust, commissioned by the University to carry out the exploratory dig, made the discovery in an area of extensive prehistoric farming landscape of fields, trackways and buildings dating back to at least 300 BC. (source: york.ac.uk)
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