| Show protected by bone vault natures greatest treasure is a small body of tissue located at the base of the brain here it has all the protection that nature has given to the brain and in addition it has another cranium or bone vault fault surrounding it just as our cranium surrounds and protects our brain the two bone vaults are almost concentric with each other and lying within the inner one is the pituitary gland sometimes called the pituitary body or the it is divided into two parts just as our brain is divided into two hemispheres but in the gland the two parts are in front and back of each other |