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 ...

Heat from the eruption in A.D. 79 was so intense that it vitrified the brain tissue of one unfortunate Herculaneum resident, a new study confirms. By Franz Lidz Five years ago Italian researchers ...

The 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius obliterated the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum with a blast that had the thermal energy of 100,000 World War II-era atomic bombs. About 1950 years ...

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 ...

A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.

Scientists have discovered the reason behind the transformation of a young man's brain to glass following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy in 79 AD. In 2020, the researchers found the black ...

The extreme and rapid nature of Mount Vesuvius' pyroclastic flows vitrified the brain tissue of the unfortunate Roman soldier thousands of 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 ...

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

Italian researchers published a study on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 that detailed how one victim of the ...