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Chinese archeologists find complete brain tissue in Eastern Zhou tomb |
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15:40, July 04, 2007 |
Experts from the State Cultural Relics Bureau have identified brain tissue in the No. 33 coffin of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770BC-221BC) tomb in Jing'an, Jiangxi Province.
Experts say the soft tissue they have excavated has all the characteristics of a human brain. Therefore, they believe the coffin contains human brain tissue.
This is the first time that experts have found human brain tissue, buried in a tomb under the acidic soil in southern China, before the Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC). Professor Zhu Hong from Jilin University, who is also an expert in the research of ancient corpses, said the brain tissue has shrunk to the size of a fist. However, it still has two brain semi-hemispheres, a cerebellum and a brain stem.
He thinks that the reason why the brain was preserved is due to the body's lack of exposure to oxygen shortly after death, which prevented the growth of bacteria.
By People's Daily Online
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