A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.

A rare organic glass was found inside a skull from Herculaneum’s 79 CE Vesuvius eruption. Researchers determined that a super ...

To make glass from soft tissue the sequence of events must be exactly right. This is how experts think it went down ...

The remains of a young man, found in his bed in the destroyed town of Herculaneum, included glassy fragments that had mystified archaeologists ...

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

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

A unique dark-colored organic glass, found inside the skull of an individual who died in Herculaneum during the 79 CE Mount ...

Mind Shattering The cataclysmic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD has fascinated researchers and historians for centuries.

Scientists have confirmed a rare discovery in Herculaneum—a man's brain turned to glass during the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D.

The research team used X-ray imaging and electron microscopy work out that the brain must have been heated to at least 510C before cooling rapidly. The pyroclastic flow is believed to have reached ...

Mount Vesuvius was so hot it turned a man’s brain into glass when it erupted, fascinating new research shows. A piece of dark ...

It turns out the eruption had somehow turned his brain into glass. It is the only case on record of such a phenomenon, and researchers now have answers for why and how it happened. They say the ...