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 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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Archaeologists have discovered vitrified brain tissue in a young man who perished during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 ...