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

In A.D. 79 a man's brain turned into glass, and researchers now might have an explanation as to how it happened ...

A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter, also called a pyroclastic flow, followed, burying the area. Experts ...

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 ...

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

Nearly 2,000 years ago, a young man lay in his bed in Herculaneum, unaware that he was about to become part of history in one ...

In A.D. 79, a man who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption near Pompeii had a rare transformation: His brain seemingly turned ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE presented its surrounding ancient Roman communities with a number of terrifying ways ...

The research team used X-ray imaging and electron microscopy work out that the brain must have been heated to at least 510C ...

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

Shard found inside a skull at Herculaneum was created as a result of a superheated cloud coming from the volcano, scientists ...