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

Under the lamp, I suddenly saw small glassy remains glittering in the volcanic ash that filled the skull," Petrone said.

Researchers discovered dark fragments resembling obsidian in the skull of a man in the ancient settlement of Herculaneum. Along with Pompeii, the ancient settlement was obliterated in 79AD when the ...

But, he adds, “unlike obsidian, the glassy remains were extremely ... high temperature might have resulted from super-hot volcanic gases and a few centimeters’ worth of ash, which enveloped ...

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“Obsidian glass, that is a volcanic glass, forms when lava is very quickly cooled, for example, where it enters into water,” Giordano added. However, the pyroclastic flows, composed of fast ...

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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 ...