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Bronze probe for removing the brain, Egyptian, late Period, after 664 BC. Long shaft with a hooked or spiralled end. The brain was often removed through the nose, in which case the hooked end of the probe was inserted into one of the nostrils. It was pushed until it broke the ethmoid bone separating the nasal cavity from the skull cavity.

Location British Museum/London/Great Britain

Unique Identifier ART303596

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 5390px × 3241px

Photo Credit © The Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource, NY

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7th century BCE

Late Period, Egypt (26th-31st Dynasty)

Scientific Instrument