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

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

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

However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy substance inside the skull of a person killed during the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Now, the scientists say they have ...

Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by ...

World History Archive/Alamy Supported by By Franz Lidz When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, fiery avalanches of ash and pumice assaulted Pompeii, displacing some 15,000 inhabitants and killing ...

Pompeii archaeologists uncover tragic final moments of two victims of Mount Vesuvius eruption Based on this analysis and studies of modern volcanic eruptions, researchers concluded that a super ...

Languages: English. 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 ...

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 ...

Inside a Lost City”, is an object lesson in the role that presentism plays in our contemporary understanding of the world, ...

A man's brain was partly turned into glass after Mount Vesuvius erupted. Researchers discovered dark fragments resembling obsidian in the skull of a man in the ancient settlement of Herculaneum.

Deadliest volcanic eruption: The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia ... a volcano that probably won't ever erupt again. 5 fast facts about volcanoes Volcanic ash is made of fragments ...