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A cloud of super-heated volcanic ash and gas exploded the brain of one Herculaneum resident and the fragments inside his skull became an extremely rare organic glass ...

Archaeologists and volcanologists have proven that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius turned a young man's brain into glass.

Start the day smarter. Get all the news ... "The first few hours of the eruption of Vesuvius were scary enough to cause most of the people in Herculaneum to flee and search for rescue by the ...

A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter, also called a pyroclastic flow, followed, burying the area. Experts believe the ash cloud turned the man's brain into glass because the ...

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

Vesuvius' eruption turned ... lends insight into the chaotic events that fatal day in A.D. 79. Although the eruption was a singular event, it killed people in multiple manners.

When Mount Vesuvius—near the modern-day Italian city of Naples—erupted ... This would mean the people of Herculaneum were actually killed by the ash cloud—not the pyroclastic flow as had ...

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Scientists have described how the heat from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago was so intense ... killing thousands of people. One of them, in Herculaneum, had his brain rendered ...

On the first day of the eruption ... "The first few hours of the eruption of Vesuvius were scary enough to cause most of the people in Herculaneum to flee and search for rescue by the city ...