A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his brain to glass almost 2,000 years ago. That is the theory Italian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. View of Mount Vesuvius from the ground of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii Getty Images/Andrea Pucci The young man was found dead ...

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For several years now, we’ve been following a tantalizing story indicating that the high heat of the ash cloud generated when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD was sufficiently hot to turn one of the ...

Fragments from the brain of a man killed by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in the year 79 are smooth and shiny but still contain visible neurons. They look like small pieces of obsidian, smooth and shiny ...

Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by Vesuvius's eruption in 79 CE. Reading time 3 minutes Nearly 2,000 years ago ...

Fragment of glassy black material extracted from the cranial cavity of a victim of the volcanic eruption at Herculaneum (image via New England Journal of Medicine, all courtesy Pier Paolo Petrone) A ...

(CNN) — Glass rarely forms naturally from organic materials. However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy substance inside the skull of a person killed during the eruption of Italy’s Mount ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A unique, dark-colored glass found inside the skull of a Roman killed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cataclysmic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD has fascinated researchers and historians for centuries. Since the early 1700s, ...