A unique dark-colored organic glass, found inside the skull of an individual who died in Herculaneum during the 79 CE Mount ...
Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the ...
Heat from the eruption in A.D. 79 was so intense that it vitrified the brain tissue of one unfortunate Herculaneum resident, ...
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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 ...
When volcanic disaster struck the Roman city of Herculaneum in 79 CE, a young man, believed to have been a guardian of a ...
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 ...
A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.
Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by ...
It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of ...