A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.

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

The famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius that wiped out Pompeii and Herculaneum created a super-heated ash cloud that turned one unlucky man's brain to glass, a new study suggests. Nearly 2,000 years ...

Plus, they would have cooled slowly. Instead, based on observations of more recent eruptions, an extremely hot ash cloud that dissipated quickly could have created the conditions necessary for the ...

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They say the vitrification - transformation into glass - of this victim's brain was the apparent effect of a scorching ash cloud that suddenly descended upon his city along the Bay of Naples ...

A fragment of the organic glass found inside the skull of the deceased individual in Herculaneum, 2024Credit: Pier Paolo Petrone But the extreme heat from the short-lived ash cloud that swept ...