In a nutshell Scientists discovered a human brain from 79 CE Vesuvius eruption transformed into glass—the only known case of natural organic glass preservation in history. The brain vitrified at ...

In 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the nearby ancient Roman city of Pompeii and the smaller town of Herculaneum ...

The methods for creating and shaping glass originated in the eastern region of the Empire, according to Pliny the Elder, a 1st century C.E. Roman author and naturalist. In Natural History XXXVI.65, ...

Transforming the brain tissue to glass would have required an extremely hot and fast-moving ash cloud, lab experiments suggest.

A fragment of organic glass formed from the brain of an individual in Herculaneum. Photo: Pier Paolo Petrone Nearly 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius erupted, swallowing the nearby Roman towns of ...

In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted, destroying the Roman city of Herculaneum. Thousands of people were killed instantly. Now, ...

A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his ...

Languages: English. A unique, dark-colored glass found inside the skull of a Roman killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is his brain—cooked into a fossil by an ash cloud. This is the ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. 'Atiqot / עתיקות כרך 100, התשפ"א / 2020 Glass Vessels from the Roman, Byzantine ... Glass Vessels ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. 'Atiqot / עתיקות כרך 100, התשפ"א / 2020 The Glass Finds from the Roman and Crusa... The Glass Finds ...

CU Boulder acknowledges that it is located on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Ute and many other Native American nations. Their forced removal from these ...