archaeologists and volcanologists show that the shards of black glass found in the skull of a young man who died when Mount ...

The pea-sized chunks of black glass were found inside the skull of the victim, aged about 20, who died when the volcano erupted in 79 AD near modern-day Naples. Scientists now believe a cloud of ...

The only other piece of glass suspected to be of 'organic origin' was identified in Herculaneum in 2020. A glassy, black material was also found inside the skull ... the victim's head, of proteins ...