Grizzly details about ancient child sacrifices, a map of a lost city in the Amazon and the answer to a Stonehenge mystery are some of this year’s insights into human history.
Bygone brains
Discovering a human brain at an archaeological site is more common than you might think. A new archive catalogs some 4,400 ancient brains that have been found dried out, frozen or otherwise preserved (SN: 3/19/24). Brains may owe such surprising sturdiness to their chemical makeup.
This 1,000-year-old naturally preserved human brain of an individual excavated from a Belgian churchyard is still soft and wet and stained orange with iron oxides.Alexandra L. Morton-Hayward Ancient arts and
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