A unique dark-colored organic glass, found inside the skull of an individual who died in Herculaneum during the 79 CE Mount ...

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

According to a new study, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius created an ash cloud so hot that the victims' brains turned to glass ...

Scientists have discovered the reason behind the transformation of a young man's brain to glass following the eruption of ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD froze tragic scenes of life in time. Among them, a rare phenomenon: the vitrification ...

The Kanlaon Volcano emitted ash lasting for more than two hours on Friday afternoon, according to the Philippine Institute of ...

Scientists have confirmed a rare discovery in Herculaneum—a man's brain turned to glass during the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 A.D.

Researchers who examined the remains of a man whose brain was purported to have turned into glass when he was killed nearly 2 ...

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 ...

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

A deadly ash cloud preserved the man's brain as glass for thousands of years.

Excavations have found that the brain of what seems to be a human male contained dark glass formed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. The effect can't be explained by lava temperatures ...