Archaeologists uncovered the remains inside a small, makeshift bedroom in a villa that was undergoing reconstruction when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD. It is believed that the victims chose the ...

According to scientists, the pyroclastic flows, which consist of fast-moving volcanic material and hazardous gas from Mount Vesuvius, were not hot enough to convert the victim's brain into glass.

The extreme and rapid nature of Mount Vesuvius' pyroclastic flows vitrified the brain tissue of the unfortunate Roman soldier thousands of years ago.

victims of the geophysical power momentarily contained beneath your feet. After an enormous sub-plinian eruption in 1631, Vesuvius has adopted a more benign personality. It produced copious ...

A team of Italian and German scientists recently determined how the brain of a victim of Mount Vesuvius’s 79 CE eruption managed to be preserved through its conversion into organic glass.

Settlers originally flocked to the site of the Roman port city because of its fertile soil—the product of volcanic ash from nearby Mount Vesuvius ... of some of the victims in their final ...

Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland, while Pompeii, which fell victim to one of Mount Vesuvius' eruptions in A.D. 79, is a UNESCO World Heritage city that was ...

preserving the faces of the victims at the moment of death,” Cheung said. One of the casts from Herculaneum, a town even closer to Mount Vesuvius than Pompeii, is a set of three skeletons ...

asphyxiating victims and leading to an estimated death toll of about 2,000. Scientists believe the disaster unfolded after the top of Mount Vesuvius collapsed, sending a powerful pyroclastic flow ...

A man’s brain was partly turned into glass when Mount Vesuvius erupted ... the vitrification - transformation into glass - of the victim's brain happened when a scorching ash cloud suddenly ...