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Vesuvius Eruption Turned This Roman Man’s Brain Into Glass 2,000 Years Ago and Scientists Just Figured Out How
A deadly ash cloud preserved the man's brain as glass for thousands of years.
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Human brain turned to glass by ash cloud from Vesuvius
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 ...
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How Vesuvius turned this man’s brain to glass: Scientists unravel a 2,000-year-old mystery
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 ...
Scientists have made the shocking discovery that the man’s brain had indeed turned into glass.
The volcanic eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD that buried the Italian city of Pompeii, with its inhabitants suffering a deadly ...
Newly discovered Pompeii frieze shows wild Bacchanalian rituals
Uncovered in what was once a spacious banqueting hall that opened onto a garden, the frieze dates back to the 1st century BC, ...
Volcano eruption turns man's brain to glass with explosive heatwave
Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD, covering nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash which buried the towns and hundreds of its ...
Mount Vesuvius eruption turned man's brain partly into glass
Scientists made the surprise discovery while examining the body of a man who was killed in the ancient city of Herculaneum ...
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Vesuvius Turned a Man’s Brain to Glass. Could Santorini Hold Similar Secrets?
Nearly two thousand years after Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, destroying the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, scientists ...
Mount Vesuvius eruption turned part of man's brain into glass
A man's brain was partly turned into glass after Mount Vesuvius erupted. Researchers discovered dark fragments resembling ...
Never-before-seen series of ancient paintings dug up in Pompeii provide clues on rituals tied to Greek god
The extraordinary images that emerged from ash show Dionysian followers dancing and hunting, which are akin to frescoes of the nearby Villa of the Mysteries that were found 100 years ago.