The research uncovers the vitrification process, where intense heat from the eruption turned brain matter into glass, a ...

Scientists have confirmed a rare discovery in Herculaneum—a man's brain turned to glass during the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D.

Mount Vesuvius was so hot it turned a man’s brain into glass when it erupted, fascinating new research shows. A piece of dark ...

The research team used X-ray imaging and electron microscopy work out that the brain must have been heated to at least 510C ...

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

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

According to a new study, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius created an ash cloud so hot that the victims' brains turned to glass ...

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