Mount Vesuvius eruption turned a victim’s brain into glass
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE presented its surrounding ancient Roman communities with a number of terrifying ways ...
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A Vesuvius Victim’s Brain Turned into Glass, and Scientists Think They Know How
The hard skull and spine of the man—whose remains archeologists found still in his bed in the town of Herculaneum—likely protected the brain from complete thermal breakdown, allowing fragments to form ...
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Vesuvius Turned One Victim’s Brain to Glass
By Franz Lidz Five years ago Italian researchers published a study on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. that detailed how one victim of the blast, a male presumed to be in his mid 20s ...
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Mount Vesuvius victim’s brain turned to GLASS after deadly ash cloud boiled their skull at 510 degrees, experts reveal
A HUNK of dark-coloured glass found inside the skull of an individual who died during the Mount Vesuvius eruption may ... and spinal cord of the person. The victim had been lying on their bed ...
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Eruption of Mount Vesuvius turned its victims' brains to GLASS: Scientists discover unique shards inside the skull of a person caught in the blast in Herculaneum
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius produced such a hot ash cloud that it turned victims' brains into glass, according to a new study. Researchers have unearthed a piece of dark-coloured organic glass ...
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Did Mount Vesuvius’ ash cloud really transform a brain into glass?
Plaster body casts of victims killed by toxic fumes during eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The famous eruption entombed Pompeii and Herculaneum, where glass-like remains were found inside a ...
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Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius
Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland, while Pompeii, which fell victim to one of Mount Vesuvius' eruptions in A.D. 79, is a UNESCO World Heritage city that was ...
Life-sized murals discovered on walls of Pompeii home buried by volcanic eruption nearly 2,000 years ago
In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced ...
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Scientists reveal how Mount Vesuvius eruption victim’s brain turned to glass
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 ...
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Mount Vesuvius eruption turned a man's brain into glass. Here's how it happened
Volcanic eruption buried ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum Victims were preserved in sudden ... the ancient city of Herculaneum after Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD found dark fragments ...