A deadly ash cloud preserved the man's brain as glass for thousands of years.
It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of ...
Why archaeologists are increasingly leaving historic sites untouched until we have less destructive technologies for studying ...
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago turned a victim’s brain tissue into glass. Scientists say they have figured ...
Scientists have discovered that Mount Vesuvius's eruption turned victims' brains into glass in a major historical ...
Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD, covering nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash which buried the towns and hundreds of its ...
A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.
Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by ...
Scientists found glass fragments inside the skull of a young man who died in Herculaneum when Mt. Vesuvius exploded in 79 CE.
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 horrific revelation of an ...
Mount Vesuvius eruption turned man's brain partly into glass - Scientists made the surprise discovery while examining the ...
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE presented its surrounding ancient Roman communities with a number of terrifying ways ...