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.
Smithsonian Magazine19 天
Vesuvius Turned a Roman Man’s Brain Into Glass. Now, Scientists Reveal How the Extremely ...
Pier Paolo Petrone In 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the nearby ancient Roman city of Pompeii and ... of his spinal cord had turned into glass. Scientists had never seen a glassy soft ...
Mount Vesuvius eruption turned a victim’s brain into glass
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE presented its surrounding ancient Roman communities with a number of terrifying ways ...
Gizmodo23 天
Preserved in Glass: How Mount Vesuvius Locked This Roman’s Brain in Time
A fragment of organic glass formed from the brain of an individual in Herculaneum. Photo: Pier Paolo Petrone Nearly 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius erupted, swallowing the nearby Roman towns of ...
Newsweek22 天
Vesuvius Volcano Ash Cloud Cooked Roman Man's Brain Into Glass Fossil
A unique, dark-colored glass found inside the skull of a Roman ... Like its more famous neighbor, Pompeii, this ancient Roman town was destroyed when Vesuvius erupted in the year 79 AD.
Gulf News22 天
How did this man's brain turn to glass? Scientists have a theory
shows a fragment of organic glass of an ancient Roman’s brain, which a volcanic eruption turned to glass. AFP PARIS: A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down ...