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 ...

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

A man's brain was partly turned into glass after Mount Vesuvius erupted. Researchers discovered dark fragments resembling obsidian in the skull of a man in the ancient settlement of Herculaneum. Along ...

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Scientists made the surprise discovery while examining the body of a man who was killed in the ancient city of Herculaneum ...

A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...

Archaeologists and volcanologists have proven that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius turned a young man's brain into glass.

“Obsidian glass, that is a volcanic glass ... that charged out of Vesuvius and buried Herculaneum could not have caused the ...

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 ...