A HUNK of dark-coloured glass found inside the skull of an individual who died during the Mount Vesuvius eruption may actually be a fossilised brain, researchers have revealed. Glass rarely forms ...

A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter, also called a pyroclastic flow, followed, burying the area. Experts ...

The research team used X-ray imaging and electron microscopy work out that the brain must have been heated to at least 510C before cooling rapidly. The pyroclastic flow is believed to have reached ...

At 7:07am, the deadliest pyroclastic current struck - a nine-hour ground-hugging flow spreading scalding debris 15 miles (25km) across. By about 4pm, the volcano interacted with groundwater ...

Because Vesuvius was so hot and violent, lava could not form. Had lava formed, rather than a "pyroclastic current" there would likely have been survivors. But with scalding gasses, that caused ...

Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD, covering nearby Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash which buried the towns and hundreds of its residents which left them perfectly preserved ...

YAMAGUCHI—An eruption of Mount Aso in Kumamoto Prefecture 90,000 years ago created a pyroclastic flow that traveled 170 kilometers north to the Sabagawa river here, the longest such distance ...

The temperatures of the pyroclastic current, while boiling, did not top 465°C and would have cooled down over a longer period of time, researchers wrote. Instead, they believe that the ...