Scientists found glass fragments inside the skull of a young man who died in Herculaneum when Mt. Vesuvius exploded in 79 CE.
Glass rarely forms naturally from organic materials. However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy substance ...
A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.
To make glass from soft tissue the sequence of events must be exactly right. This is how experts think it went down ...
Archaeologists and volcanologists have proven that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius turned a young man's brain into glass.
A rare form of dark-colored organic glass formed when an intense ash cloud superheated the individual’s brain before it ...
Under the lamp, I suddenly saw small glassy remains glittering in the volcanic ash that filled the skull," Petrone said.
A HUNK of dark-coloured glass found inside the skull of an individual who died during the Mount Vesuvius eruption may actually be a fossilised brain, researchers have revealed. Glass rarely forms ...
A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter, also called a pyroclastic flow, followed, burying the area. Experts ...
Mind Shattering The cataclysmic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD has fascinated researchers and historians for centuries.
A rare organic glass was found inside a skull from Herculaneum’s 79 CE Vesuvius eruption. Researchers determined that a super ...
A deadly ash cloud preserved the man's brain as glass for thousands of years.