A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter, also called a pyroclastic flow, followed, burying the area. Experts believe the ash cloud turned the man's brain into glass because the ...

A cloud of super-heated volcanic ash and gas exploded the brain of one Herculaneum resident and the fragments inside his skull became an extremely rare organic glass ...

It dates from about 40 to 30 B.C., making it over 100 years old by the time of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 that destroyed the city. A woman at the center of the frieze "is about to ...

AFP via Getty Images Researchers who examined the ... when he was killed nearly 2,000 years ago in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius say they have figured out what caused the phenomenon.

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

For his 2022 book, “Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius,” Dr. Foss examined 79 ... Marco Cantile/LightRocket, via Getty Images During the first 17 hours, Dr. Scarpati said, Pompeii was ...

They took detailed images using powerful electron microscopes ... formation of organic glass from a human brain in the Vesuvius eruption of 79 CE” was published in Scientific Reports (volume ...

In 79 AD, Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted, utterly destroying the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum over two days. On the first day of the eruption, Pompeii was covered in ash and falling debris ...

Alongside the lavish complex, remains of individuals reveal the tragic impact of Mount Vesuvius' eruption in AD79. This find of... A scientific study on the Alexander Mosaic, displayed in Naples ...

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

Volcanic eruption buried ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum ... in bed in the ancient city of Herculaneum after Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD found dark fragments resembling obsidian ...