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

Two of the area's most iconic locales – Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii – can be found roughly 15 miles away from central Naples. Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland ...

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE presented its surrounding ancient Roman communities with a number of terrifying ways ...

Almost two millennia after Mount Vesuvius erupted the vast secrets of Pompeii are still being discovered. The Roman city was buried under a blanket of volcanic detritus in AD 79 and archaeologists ...

“The Last Day of Pompeii,” a 19th-century painting by the Russian artist Karl Bryullov.Credit...World History Archive/Alamy Supported by By Franz Lidz When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D ...

For over two centuries, archaeologists have hailed Pompeii as a sophisticated city ... of the city tragically buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. New archaeological finds ...

Pompeii archaeologists uncover tragic final moments of two victims of Mount Vesuvius eruption Based on this analysis and studies of modern volcanic eruptions, researchers concluded that a super ...

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

In 79 AD, Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted, utterly destroying the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum over two days. On the first day of the eruption, Pompeii was covered in ash and falling debris ...

Researchers in Pompeii were studying the skeleton of a young man who died following the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Inside his skull, the found strange glass fragments. A close look revealed ...

They found dark fragments resembling obsidian inside his skull following the eruption, which also obliterated the thriving Roman cities of Pompeii ... the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD ...