"Oldest human brain discovered"

In a York University site there’s been a very curious discovery. Archaeologists have found, in a pit, a skull with a yellow substance. The substance is a human brain, but not a normal one; it’s very old, probably from the Iron Age. After some investigations, archaeologists say that it can be a fossilised brain, because the tissues are preserved and microbes haven’t eaten them. As it seems, the oldest brain of the world has been discovered. That’s a very important fact, which will allow scientists to study many things about how has it arrived to our days.

New words learnt:

Shrunken - encongit
Fatty - greixós
Farmed - cultivat
Dig - excavació
Under way - en marxa
Mudy - fangós
Pit - forat, fossa

Article from BBC News, Friday 12 December 2008, written by (Unknown).