Why it’s unlikely Mount Vesuvius really turned a brain to glass
A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.
An ancient volcano victim's brain turned to glass. Scientists now think they know how
To make glass from soft tissue the sequence of events must be exactly right. This is how experts think it went down ...
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Mount Vesuvius eruption turned a man's brain into glass. Here's how it happened
"The only other type of organic glass we have evidence of is that produced in some rare cases of vitrification of wood, ...
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Human brain turned into glass by 1,950-year-old volcanic eruption, scientists stunned
A rare form of dark-colored organic glass, discovered inside the skull of a victim from the 79 CE Mount Vesuvius eruption, likely formed when an intense but short-lived ash cloud superheated the ...
Scientists Discover Mysterious Ancient Human Brain Turned to Glass by Mount Vesuvius
A rare organic glass was found inside a skull from Herculaneum’s 79 CE Vesuvius eruption. Researchers determined that a super ...
Man's brain turned to glass by hot Vesuvius ash cloud
A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter, also called a pyroclastic flow, followed, burying the area. Experts ...
Vesuvius Turned One Victim’s Brain to Glass
Heat from the eruption in A.D. 79 was so intense that it vitrified the brain tissue of one unfortunate Herculaneum resident, ...
An erupting volcano turned a young man's brain into glass, researchers say
Archaeologists and volcanologists have proven that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius turned a young man's brain into glass.
Study: Hot Vesuvian ash cloud really did turn a brain to glass
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 ...