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 ...
Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD, covering nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash which buried the towns and hundreds of its ...
Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by ...
It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of ...
A rare form of dark-colored organic glass formed when an intense ash cloud superheated the individual’s brain before it ...
Parts of a human brain solidified into black glass when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius blasted a young man’s bedroom with a ...
Scientists found glass fragments inside the skull of a young man who died in Herculaneum when Mt. Vesuvius exploded in 79 CE.
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