In the late 1990s, rabbits digging burrows in a remote corner of northern Scotland stumbled upon something extraordinary: a human skull buried beneath a pile of stones near Loch Borralie. When archaeologists later excavated the site, they uncovered the remains of two people who lived roughly 2,000 years ago, during Britain's Iron Age.

A human brain that may date back more than two millennia has been recovered from a skull unearthed near York, offering an unusual case of soft tissue survival in Iron Age…

El análisis de ADN antiguo e isótopos confirmó que la difunta enterrada en Loch Borralie era familiar del niño hallado junto a ella. Ambos provenían de una región distinta al…