Archaeologists and volcanologists have proven that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius turned a young man's brain into glass.
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 ...
A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.
The extreme and rapid nature of Mount Vesuvius' pyroclastic flows vitrified the brain tissue of the unfortunate Roman soldier ...
The remains of a young man, found in his bed in the destroyed town of Herculaneum, included glassy fragments that had mystified archaeologists ...
Shard found inside a skull at Herculaneum was created as a result of a superheated cloud coming from the volcano, scientists prove ...
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An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ...
"This is totally counterintuitive," said Guido Giordano, a volcanologist at the Roma Tre University, a public research university in Rome ... Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted, utterly destroying ...