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

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

A rare form of dark-colored organic glass formed when an intense ash cloud superheated the individual’s brain before it ...

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

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