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The eruption of Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago turned a victim’s brain tissue into glass. Scientists say they have figured ...

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Learn how one victim of the A.D. 79 Mt. Vesuvius eruption experienced a singular set of tragic circumstances.

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A man, thought to be the custodian of a religious group, was believed to be in his bed asleep, when a super-hot ash cloud hit ...

Archaeologists have discovered vitrified brain tissue in a young man who perished during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 ...

A HUNK of dark-coloured glass found inside the skull of an individual who died during the Mount Vesuvius eruption may ...

Scientists found glass fragments inside the skull of a young man who died in Herculaneum when Mt. Vesuvius exploded in 79 CE.

Researchers have unearthed a piece of dark-coloured organic glass which was found inside the skull of an individual who died in the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum nearly 2,000 years ago.

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.