Why it’s unlikely Mount Vesuvius really turned a brain to glass
A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.
Mount Vesuvius eruption turned a victim’s brain into glass
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE presented its surrounding ancient Roman communities with a number of terrifying ways ...
The New York Times18d
Vesuvius Erupted, but When Exactly?
the team measured the thickness of the single layers over a 775-square-mile area around Mount Vesuvius. The deposits recorded dramatic, increasingly violent pulses from the volcano. At noon on Day ...
Preserved in Glass: How Mount Vesuvius Locked This Roman’s Brain in Time
Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by ...
Newsweek20d
Vesuvius Volcano Ash Cloud Cooked Roman Man's Brain Into Glass Fossil
Languages: English. 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 ...
Nature21d
Vesuvius volcano turned this brain to glass
Read the paper: Unique formation of organic glass from a human brain in the Vesuvius eruption of 79 CE ... extreme conditions during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Researchers studied the strange ...
Irish Sun21d
Mount Vesuvius victim’s brain turned to GLASS after deadly ash cloud boiled their skull at 510 degrees, experts reveal
A HUNK of dark-coloured glass found inside the skull of an individual who died during the Mount Vesuvius eruption may ... lava fragments coughed out by the volcano after the initial burst of ...
AZ Central20d
An erupting volcano turned a young man's brain into glass, researchers say
In 79 AD, Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted ... "But during the night, the first pyroclastic flow was ejected from the volcano, a turbulent mix of ash, pumice and super hot gasses, and hit Herculaneum." ...