A brain transmuted into glass by the famous volcano should have been impossible. Some scientists say it still is.

In 79 C.E., Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the nearby ancient Roman city of Pompeii and the smaller town of Herculaneum under deadly layers of volcanic ash, pumice and pyroclastic flows. But the ...

Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by ...

A cloud of super-heated volcanic ash and gas exploded the brain of one Herculaneum resident and the fragments inside his skull became an extremely rare organic glass ...

In 79 AD, Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted, utterly destroying the towns of Pompeii ... hot enough to kill people and raise the ...

In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced ...

Pompeii volcanic eruption was so hot it turned brain to glass - Fiery ash cloud that dissipated quickly was likely first deadly event during Mount Vesuvius eruption ...

A rare sequence of heating and cooling triggered the chain of chemical reactions that turn organic material into glass.

They still can’t agree on the day Vesuvius blew its top ... heavy wool clothing found on bodies; wine in sealed jars, indicating that the grape harvest was over; and wood-burning braziers ...

For several years now, we've been following a tantalizing story indicating that the high heat of the ash cloud generated when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD was sufficiently hot to turn one of the ...

In 79 AD, Italy's Mount Vesuvius erupted, utterly destroying the ... hot enough to kill people and raise the temperature of their bodies to above 500 or 600 degrees Celsius (between 930 and ...