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

Intense heat generated by Mt. Vesuvius' eruption turned one victim's brain to glass. While gruesome, the finding published in ...

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

The famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius that wiped out Pompeii and Herculaneum created a super-heated ash cloud that turned one ...

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

It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of ...

“Here we demonstrate that material with glassy appearance found within the skull of a seemingly male human body entombed ...

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

Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by ...

A unique, dark-colored glass found inside the skull of a Roman killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is his brain—cooked into a fossil by an ash cloud. This is the horrific revelation of an ...

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