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

A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...

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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 ...

A Herculaneum scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius ... "fear" (φοβ), "disgust" (διατροπή) and "life" (βίου). The team hopes to put these words into context as they analyze the rest ...

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 ...

In 79 CE, Mount Vesuvius erupted, destroying the Roman city of Herculaneum. Thousands of people were killed instantly. Now, scientists have made a shocking discovery—inside the skull of one victim, ...

He appeared to have died lying down in his bed in the "Collegium Augustalium"—a building owned by an imperial cult that worshipped the former emperor Augustus—in Herculaneum. Like its more ...

And while attention is often focused on the destruction of Pompeii and its thousands of victims, the fate of nearby Herculaneum wasn’t much better. According to recent analysis of unique samples ...