It was a surprising discovery when scientists examining the remains of a man who died in bed in the ancient city of ...

In the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, a young man lay in bed as the world around him erupted into chaos. It was AD 79, and the volcano had unleashed its fury, burying the Roman towns of Pompeii and ...

Those investigation the remains of the man, first discovered in the 1960s, found dark substances inside the brain cavity that resembled obsidian, before working out that a process of vitrification ...

Scientists were stunned to find dark fragments resembling obsidian in the skull of a man who died in ancient city of Herculaneum during the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The eruption had somehow ...