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

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

Fragments from the brain of a man killed by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in the year 79 are smooth and shiny but still contain ...

To make glass from soft tissue the sequence of events must be exactly right. This is how experts think it went down ...

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

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

Scientists found glass fragments inside the skull of a young man who died in Herculaneum when Mt. Vesuvius exploded in 79 CE.

When volcanic disaster struck the Roman city of Herculaneum in 79 CE, a young man, believed to have been a guardian of a ...

A man, thought to be the custodian of a religious group, was believed to be in his bed asleep, when a super-hot ash cloud hit ...

Along with volcanic ash, his brain and spinal cord were found ... had literally turned to a glass-like material — vitrified — in a truly unique example of natural alchemy.

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