Dozens of 'rare', naturally preserved brains found in Spanish Civil War-era mass grave
Updated 15 July 2017, 15:50 AEST
Archaeologists excavating a mass grave in Spain find the naturally preserved brains of 45 people eight decades after they were buried.
A forensic anthropologist shows one of the 45 brains saponified of those killed by forces of the dictator Francisco Franco.
Archaeologists excavating a mass grave in Spain have found the largest collection of naturally preserved human brains in the world, a scientist says.
The brains of 45 people, who were shot and buried on a hillside in the northern province of Burgos eight decades ago, were found in a mass grave from Spain's 1936 to 1939 Civil War.
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