Transforming the brain tissue to glass would have required an extremely hot and fast-moving ash cloud, lab experiments suggest.

[as] was the case of the unfortunate ancient Roman in Herculaneum, there could be a possibility to survive and wait for rescue.” It does sound magical that a human being could turn into glass ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...