Mount Vesuvius was so hot it turned a man’s brain into glass when it erupted, fascinating new research shows. A piece of dark ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD froze tragic scenes of life in time. Among them, a rare phenomenon: the vitrification ...

Scientists have discovered the reason behind the transformation of a young man's brain to glass following the eruption of ...

The research uncovers the vitrification process, where intense heat from the eruption turned brain matter into glass, a ...

The only known case of a human brain being turned to glass, that of a man caught in the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius at the ...

A young Roman's final moments in Herculaneum were so intense that when Mount Vesuvius erupted, his brain didn’t burn—it ...

According to a new study, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius created an ash cloud so hot that the victims' brains turned to glass ...