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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.

Researchers who examined the remains of a man whose brain was purported to have turned into glass when he was killed nearly 2 ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, a young man's brain in Herculaneum turned to glass during Mount Vesuvius' eruption, due to extreme ...

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A young Roman's final moments in Herculaneum were so intense that when Mount Vesuvius erupted, his brain didn’t burn—it ...

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When volcanic disaster struck the Roman city of Herculaneum in 79 CE, a young man, believed to have been a guardian of a public building, met his demise in a flash of superheated ash. But his brain ...

A deadly ash cloud preserved the man's brain as glass for thousands of years.

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Excavations have found that the brain of what seems to be a human male contained dark glass formed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. The effect can't be explained by lava temperatures ...