Researchers who examined the remains of a man whose brain was purported to have turned into glass when he was killed nearly 2 ...
Scientists made the surprise discovery while examining the body of a man who was killed in the ancient city of Herculaneum ...
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 disaster that obliterated two cities also created the intense heat and rapid cooling behind the one-of-a-kind ...
Mount Vesuvius was so hot it turned a man’s brain into glass when it erupted, fascinating new research shows. A piece of dark ...
Nearly 2,000 years ago, a young man's brain in Herculaneum turned to glass during Mount Vesuvius' eruption, due to extreme ...
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 ...
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD froze tragic scenes of life in time. Among them, a rare phenomenon: the vitrification ...
A deadly ash cloud preserved the man's brain as glass for thousands of years.
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 ...
Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD, covering nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash which buried the towns and hundreds of its ...
Scientists have described how the heat from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago was so intense it turned ...