Mount Vesuvius, the volcano responsible for the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD, remains one of the most ...

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A rare and haunting discovery inside the skull of a Roman man who perished in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius has revealed his brain was transformed into glass—fossilised by an intense surge of ...

The basic facts are not in dispute. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE entombed the city under layers of ash and pumice stone. Rediscovered in 1599, the city was gradually uncovered ...

World History Archive/Alamy Supported by By Franz Lidz When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, fiery avalanches of ash and pumice assaulted Pompeii, displacing some 15,000 inhabitants and killing ...

A unique dark-colored organic glass, found inside the skull of an individual who died in Herculaneum during the 79 CE Mount Vesuvius eruption, likely formed when they were killed by a very hot but ...

Around 2,000 years ago, a man who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption near Pompeii experienced a rare transformation - his brain somehow turned into glass. For many years, scientists questioned how ...

Researchers who examined the remains of a man whose brain was purported to have turned into glass when he was killed nearly 2,000 years ago in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius say they have ...

Researchers examining the remains of a man whose brain supposedly turned into glass when he was killed nearly 2,000 years ago in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius said they likely know what ...

It is the first ever evidence of a fossilised brain being found following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago (Picture: Reuters) Mount Vesuvius was so hot it turned a man’s ...

It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of Herculaneum after Italy’s Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79 found dark fragments ...