After cruising an archaeology website, I found an interesting article about a preserved human head. It described the head being from Europe's Dark Ages having been dissected from approximately 1200-1280 A.D. The article goes on to explain that maybe Europe's "Dark Ages" not having been so dark after all. They explain that the head had an extremely advanced preservation methods. The methods used had consisted of filling the veins and arteries full of a mixture of beeswax, lime and cinnabar mercury to help preservation. What I find so interesting about preservation is the reasons behind it.
It always amazes me how much scientific experimentation that was happening, and how it was usually more advanced than we give them credit for.
http://www.archaeology.org/news/624-130305-middle-ages-medicine-dissection
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