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In A.D. 79 a man's brain turned into glass, and researchers now might have an explanation as to how it happened ...
A series of frescoes spanning three walls of an ancient banquet hall was recently discovered in Pompeii. The enormous, ...
The research uncovers the vitrification process, where intense heat from the eruption turned brain matter into glass, a ...
According to a new study, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius created an ash cloud so hot that the victims' brains turned to glass ...
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 ...
The research team used X-ray imaging and electron microscopy work out that the brain must have been heated to at least 510C ...
A young Roman's final moments in Herculaneum were so intense that when Mount Vesuvius erupted, his brain didn’t burn—it ...
Mount Vesuvius was so hot it turned a man’s brain into glass when it erupted, fascinating new research shows. A piece of dark ...
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 ...