Learn how the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79 transformed one unfortunate victim’s brain into organic glass.

Investigators making the shocking find saw that the remains had dark substances inside the cavity that resembled obsidian.

Researchers who examined the remains of a man whose brain was purported to have turned into glass when he was killed nearly 2,000 years ago in the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius say they have ...

According to scientists, the pyroclastic flows, which consist of fast-moving volcanic material and hazardous gas from Mount Vesuvius, were not hot enough to convert the victim's brain into glass.

Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano left on Europe's mainland, while Pompeii, which fell victim to one of Mount Vesuvius' eruptions in A.D. 79, is a UNESCO World Heritage city that was ...

Settlers originally flocked to the site of the Roman port city because of its fertile soil—the product of volcanic ash from nearby Mount Vesuvius ... of some of the victims in their final ...

Scientists then used AI to piece together the images, search for ink that reveals where there is writing, and enhance the ...

asphyxiating victims and leading to an estimated death toll of about 2,000. Scientists believe the disaster unfolded after the top of Mount Vesuvius collapsed, sending a powerful pyroclastic flow ...

Researchers say the nearly life-size figures shed new light on life and religion in Pompeii, which was destroyed when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. The discovery was made while researchers from ...

victims of the geophysical power momentarily contained beneath your feet. After an enormous sub-plinian eruption in 1631, Vesuvius has adopted a more benign personality. It produced copious ...

In late 2023, Nebraska’s Luke Farritor became the first to decode a Greek word from a papyrus scroll charred into a lump of carbon by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. A student ...