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Mel White
, Adjunct Professor, Emeritus Program at Richland College (2015-present)
Answered December 13, 2019
No. But let’s examine this answer closely and see why they didn’t.
their knowledge of anatomy wasn’t that good. They didn’t perform human dissections - brains weren’t removed for study at any point in the dynastic history.
They thought of it as sort of a cranial stuffing: History of neuroscience - Wikipedia
After death, they scrambled and removed and discarded the brain during mummification. The brain does not appear in any function in the Book of the Dead (unlike the heart and the contents of the canopic jars)
It actually wasn’t discovered until the 17th century. It’s not very noticeable and you have to have good brain samples and a good description of brain anatomy to be able to identify separate parts. And this is a pretty small part.
In fact… here’s a brain. Can you, without cheating, find the pineal gland? There’s a lot of light tan color there and not a lot of difference between the areas.
This answer appeared just below your pretty picture (whose entry, BTW, ended with 'The pineal is GOD!').
Source:
https://www.quora.com/Were-the-ancient-Egyptians-aware-of-the-pineal-gland?share=1