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

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Heat from the eruption in A.D. 79 was so intense that it vitrified the brain tissue of one unfortunate Herculaneum resident, ...

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

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A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his ...

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“Here we demonstrate that material with glassy appearance found within the skull of a seemingly male human body entombed ...

It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of ...

Archaeologists and volcanologists have proven that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius turned a young man's brain into glass.