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In Egypt, from the late Middle Kingdom onwards, the brain was regularly removed in preparation for mummification.
According to Herodotus, the first step of mummification was to " take a crooked piece of iron, and with it draw out the brain through the nostrils, thus getting rid of a portion, while the skull is cleared of the rest by rinsing with drugs.
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