MILAN - The eruption of Mount Vesuvius turned an incinerated victim’s brain material into glass, the first time scientists have verified the phenomenon from a volcanic blast, officials at the ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii. Now, new research is digging deeper into what really ...

"The only other type of organic glass we have evidence of is that produced in some rare cases of vitrification of wood, sporadic cases of which have been found at Herculaneum and Pompeii. "However, in ...

Mount Vesuvius victim’s brain turned to GLASS after deadly ash cloud boiled their skull at 510 degrees, experts reveal The only other piece of glass suspected to be of 'organic origin' was ...

An American tourist had to be rescued on Mount Vesuvius near Naples after he apparently slipped into the Italian volcano’s crater while trying to recover his fallen cellphone, news reports and ...

Mount Vesuvius eruption turned man's brain partly into glass Scientists made the surprise discovery while examining the body of a man who was killed in the ancient city of Herculaneum ...

A man’s brain was partly turned into glass when Mount Vesuvius erupted. Scientists made the surprise discovery when examining the remains of a man who died in his bed in the ancient city of ...

Mount Vesuvius eruption turned part of man's brain into glass after super-hot ash cloud A man, thought to be the custodian of a religious group, was believed to be in his bed asleep, when a super ...

It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of Herculaneum after Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD found dark fragments ...