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

Learn how one victim of the A.D. 79 Mt. Vesuvius eruption experienced a singular set of tragic circumstances.

Pompeii volcanic eruption was so hot it turned brain to glass - Fiery ash cloud that dissipated quickly was likely first deadly event during Mount Vesuvius eruption ...

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 ...

In A.D. 79 a man's brain turned into glass, and researchers now might have an explanation as to how it happened ...

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

Pompeii's discovery rekindled a general interest in antiquity, a fascination that inspired arts, letters, and architecture. The pyroclastic flow blanketed Pompeii in some 20 feet of ash ...

The researchers noted in the paper that temperatures of the pyroclastic flows that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum were several hundred degrees—heat that would typically destroy soft tissue.

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

Shard found inside a skull at Herculaneum was created as a result of a superheated cloud coming from the volcano, scientists ...